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Correspondence 1993-1998, re Michael O’Connor’s move to release copies of Turner & Newall records gathered in preparation of Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

At the time O’Connor was Vice President and Senior Associate Counsel of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Includes

• set of Turner & Newall documents re insulation and shipbuilding, 1944-1950, with an overview
• SPAID documentation on Dr Kevin Browne
• set of Turner & Newall documents re asbestosis widows and press coverage of one of them, Molly Fisher
• press coverage on Chase Manhattan’s case turning to dust, and an inquiry from Nancy Tait with London colleagues, asking could they let her have “the index to Mike O’Connor’s papers”

Closes with Nancy Tait corresponding re O’Connor’s Freedom of Information Award in the UK, 1995, in recognition of “his remarkable efforts to supply British victims of asbestos diseases with documents needed for their compensation claims."

Copy of Grieve's MD thesis on asbestosis, submitted at the University of Edinburgh, 1927.

Further includes SPAID's tabled listing of case information extracted from the thesis at Nancy Tait's instruction, c.1994.

So labelled. Correspondence and papers re Turner & Newall pneumoconiosis cases, 1946-1957.

Includes instructions from Nancy Tait, 10 May 1994, to extract case information from this batch of documents, as well as the resulting listing (in tabled form).

"Dr Knox period" is not an exact descriptor. John F. Knox became Factory Medical Officer to Turner Brothers Asbestos Co in 1949 (from 1959 Chief Medical Officer). In 1965 he was appointed Medical Consultant to Turner & Newall, retiring in 1968.

With a detailed covering letter from Michael O'Connor, 20 July 1993. Correspondence and papers re proposed changes to the Asbestos Regulations and T&N's subsequent steps for compliance.

Papers include

• minutes of T&N Chairman's Committee meetings, meetings of Advisory Panel on Problems Arising from the Use of Asbestos, meetings between the Ministry of Labour (renamed Department of Employment and Productivity in 1968) and the Asbestosis Research Council (ARC)
• also records re first prosecution of T&N for breaching the new regulations, 1971
• and what Michael O'Connor (and Nancy Tait with him) termed the "evil day" memorandum of 12 August 1968. This came from the manager of J W Roberts Railways and Insulation Department, advising the Chairman of J W Roberts (A N (‘Sandy’) Marshall) on the probable impact of the provisions made in the draft Regulations on Asbestos re sales of sprayed and other asbestos.The memorandum includes the comment: “If … we demonstrate, by a token effort only of ostensible intention to comply with the regulations, it is conceivable that we can ward off the evil day when asbestos cannot economically be applied …”

Correspondence and papers re five asbestosis claim files, received from Michael O’Connor through Eamonn Markham, 1 July 1993. Includes minutes of periodic board meetings re the asbestosis fund. The claims relate to

• Mr Prince William Apps
• Mr Charles Coyle
• Mr Joseph Meanen
• Mr Walter Willows
• Mr James William Wren

The Meanen file includes paper re Meanen's widow's lawsuit against Newalls Insulation Co Ltd, 1954. The Willows file includes legal correspondence and court papers (statement of claim, defense) re Willows v. TAC Company Ltd, 1960. Also photocopy of judgement in Nash v. Parkinson & Cowan Ltd, 24 March 1961 (a silicosis case).

Corporate correspondence and papers re media coverage on the asbestos industry, in particular the Yorkshire Television documentary ‘Alice: a fight for life’ (broadcast 20 July 1982). The programme was named after Alice Jefferson, who developed malignant pleural mesothelioma thirty years after working at an asbestos plant for a few months as a teenager. The film documented her last days and explored the health issues surrounding the manufacture and use of asbestos products.

Includes

• formal complaint to the Independent Broadcasting Authority by Wilfred Penney (Asbestos Information Centre)
• T&N's extensive point by point refutations of statements made in the documentary, among them the allegation that T&N had removed four pages from the evidence it submitted to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Committee) in 1976-1977; presumably the tables 'Airborne asbestos dust survey results' 1961-1972, see http://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/oeda-turner-newall-tables-to-aca )

The bulk of the file dates from 1982-1983. Covering correspondence with Chase Manhattan is dated 1993.

Correspondence, 1977-1986, between the Medical Research Council and the Company Medical Adviser of TAC Construction Materials Ltd re a follow-up study of TAC asbestos workers at Rhoose. The study had commenced in 1978. It followed up on an earlier study of 1000 workers conducted in 1962.

Includes a cover note by Michael O'Connor, c.1993.

Correspondence with Fiona Bruce (BBC, ‘First Sight’), 1993, re case information on a probable environmental asbestos exposure, received through Chase Manhattan.

Correspondence and papers (foliated), 1928-1991, chiefly re asbestos injury cases and compensation claims brought against T&N. With a telephone message from Michael O’Connor (Chase Manhattan Bank), 25 May 1993, inquiring whether copies of the T&N material had been received and offering more.
Includes:

• inventory of the papers
• copies of T&N Board meetings and Executive Committee meetings
• correspondence on T&N factories at Hindley Green, Armley, etc.
• documents relating to inquests, lists of deceased, newspaper articles, lists of asbestos-related deaths and claims (containing date of birth, cause of death), copies of medical records and autopsy reports
• research papers
• account (incomplete) by defendants' law firm Richards & O'Neil, addressed to the magistrate judge in Chase v. T&N, detailing progress made by T&N in complying with court's orders re disclosure
• affidavit of John Mason Atkinson (25 August 1991), in Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York. J M Atkinson was the Group Solicitor of T&N plc, 1966-1988

Chiefly T&N's periodical compilations of pneumoconiosis / asbestosis cases, c.1944-1966, starting at around the time when the Workmen's Compensation Acts were replaced by the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act (1946). Also corporate correspondence.

This aggregation was processed by SPAID: Nancy Tait instructed her colleague Mrs Robinson to number the documents and to extract case information. The resulting table lists all case names including any information that seemed ususual, such as 'death at a young age', 'lung cancer', 'short exposure'.

Corporate correspondence and papers re media coverage on the asbestos industry, in particular the Yorkshire Television documentary ‘First Tuesday: Too close to home’ (broadcast 6 December 1988). 'Too close to home' told the story of the Armley community, where mortality from mesothelioma was unusually high due to exposure to asbestos dust from J W Roberts factory, which had closed in 1958.

Includes

• correspondence re I M D Grieve's MD thesis (University of Edinburgh, 1927) on asbestos deaths at the J W Roberts factory at Armley
• list of J W Roberts compensation claims to 1988
• correspondence re the Leeds mesothelioma study of Dr Lorna Arblaster

A copy of Grieve's MD thesis was removed as it duplicated copies elsewhere in the archive. See link below.

Copies of minutes and other papers relating to T&N Board and Executive Committee meetings, 1967-1990.

Correspondence and papers re asbestos-related diseases within TAC Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd. Covers mainly sites at Trafford Park, Tamworth, Dalmuir, Rhoose, Ditton, Widnes and Erith. Includes:

• multiple lists of asbestosis cases since 1929, lists of formal legal claims settled or still proceeding, also copies of death certificates (1980-1990)
• quarterly reports on health (incomplete series), minutes of the Tamworth Health & Safety Committee 1976-1980
• correspondence re a project ‘Mortality study of chrysotile asbestos workers’, to be undertaken by the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit, Penarth
• documentation of the company’s Asbestos and Health Communications Group and its 'We fight back'-concept, started 1976, to take more control of the public image of asbestos.
• updates on the activities of the Simpson Committee 1976-1979, memorandum on steps to insure compliance with the Committee’s recommendations

Turners Asbestos Cement Co Ltd (TAC) was formed in 1929 as result of re-organisation of the parent company, T&N, to administer the Trafford Park works and former Bell's United Asbestos Co Ltd companies. In 1970 TAC absorbed J W Roberts' operations and formed Turners Asbestos Cement Construction Materials Ltd. In the intervening years, TAC's sites included factories at Tamworth, Dalmuir, Rhoose, Ditton, Widnes and Erith (in addition to the Trafford Park works).

Correspondence and papers re successive studies of mortality among former workers at J W Roberts Armley factory. One survey looked specifically at women and was undertaken by Dr Leo Kinlan, statistican to Dr Richard Doll, Oxford, during the 1970s. The second project was undertaken by Leeds City Council and looked more broadly at mesothelioma deaths in Leeds.

Copies of records relating to compensation, 1975-1989, including extracts specifically on William Ashton Tait and his wife Nancy. Includes extensive drafts for a compensation scheme.