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Photocopy of an account of Turner & Newall Ltd, issued by the directors of T&N "so that the shareholders of the company may be acquainted with the nature and scope of its operations". Appeared while the company was still chaired by Frederick Stirling Newall, who died 1930.

Copies of minutes 1929-1949. There are gaps, notably 1944, 1945, 1947 are missing. Other years appear incomplete.

J W Roberts Ltd were part of the T&N group.

Company correspondence relating to lung cancer, 1947-1952, in particular research at the Saranac Laboratory of the Edward L Trudeau Foundation, New York.

Chiefly correspondence between National Coal Board and Turner Brothers Ltd, Rochdale, re dust samplers and dust sampling. Includes results of dust sampling and counting, Rochdale Factory 'B' block, 1957.

Photocopy of a brief history of Turner Brothers Asbestos Company Ltd, based on a paper delivered to the Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society by Mr N A Morling, 19 February 1959 and published also in ‘Transaction of the Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society’ 24 (1960): 49-64

Correspondence and papers, itemised, re new shipbuilding regulations. Includes many draft versions of the regulations. Also covers asbestosis statistics and meetings of the Scottish Insulating Engineers' Association.

Continues a similar series (1944-1950) that forms part of the Nancy Tait - Michael O'Connor correspondence. See link below.

Correspondence and papers re more than a dozen asbestosis cases, including K J Spencer, George Smith, Charles Crewe, Frederick B Dowling, Arthur Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, Rebecca Pretoria James, Doris Haslan, J H Clegg, S Hillier, Stanley Tooby, and Stanley Wild. Further includes a report on the Asbestosis Fund, 1964.

Photocopy of a typescript ‘A history of J W Roberts Ltd up to 1964’, n.d.

Correspondence and papers re new research on the biological effects of asbestos; also re public perceptions of risks associated with asbestos.

Photocopy of typescript 'TAC history: origin to end of 1967'

Correspondence documenting T&N’s efforts to counter the findings in a report by the University of Leeds re the health hazards of using asbestos in buildings.

Correspondence documenting T&N’s efforts to persuade the Northern Ireland Hospital Authority not to ban the use of asbestos products in its hospitals.

Photocopy of typescript ‘Turner & Newall: the first fifty years', by L T C Rolt, c.1970. Also includes photocopy of form 'Department of Employment Medical Examination of Asbestos Workers (Asbestos Regulations 1969)', marked "From Ferodo".

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (1910-1974) was an English writer and engineer.

Correspondence and papers re the new asbestos regulations, in some respects filling gaps in the previous aggregation.

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to T&N seminars of Industrial Medical Officers (IMO seminars), 1970-1974. Also re offering similar seminars for GPs in the Rochdale area.