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Records (including legal opinions, court summons etc.) relating to legal actions regarding the site of the Dalmuir factory of Turner Asbestos Cement Co Ltd (TAC), later TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

Legal papers is re Monaville Estates Ltd v. TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

Closes with account of legal costs 1981-1986 for professional services rendered by Biggart Baillie & Gifford, W.S., Solicitors, in regard to "the first Action by Clydebank City Council against Monaville Estates Ltd [etc. and] regarding the second Action raised by Monaville Estates Ltd".

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

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

Photocopy of booklet 'Turner & Newall today' (n.d.), an overview of the company’s global achievements and organisation, including emphasis on its deliberate decentralisation (p. 30). Also stressed is that the parent company “is responsible for the operation of the Turner & Newall Ltd Asbestos Fibre Laboratory in Manchester, the only establishment in the world exclusively devoted to fundamental research on asbestos".

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.

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

Photocopy of booklet ‘Turner & Newall Ltd’, designed, produced and printed by George Pulman & Sons Ltd, Thayer Street, London. Appeared after the company was registered at a Manchester address, i.e. 1949 or after.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.