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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."

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

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

Foliated minutes and papers of T&N Ltd Board and Executive Committee meetings. Includes an inventory. Among subjects covered are reports on the Asbestosis Fund, information on employers’ liability insurance for asbestosis, asbestosis cases, research into asbestosis and mesothelioma cases and claims, deaths of asbestos workers, claims and payments, etc.

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.

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.

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 the new asbestos regulations, in some respects filling gaps in the previous aggregation.

Correspondence and papers re testimony submitted to the HSC Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Committee), its conclusions, and T&N's reaction. Includes:

• typescript summary 'Advisory Committee on Asbestos' (n.d. and of unidentified provenance)
• photocopy of the final report of the committee, 'Asbestos: volume 1: final report of the advisory committee' (1979)
• correspondence about the activities and reports of the Simpson Committee, 1976-1979, and press reports 1976

Also contained in this aggregation was a photocopy of 'Selected written evidence submitted to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos 1976-77' (1977). This was disposed of as it contained no annotations. A copy of the original text can be consulted at http://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/oeda-selected-written-evidence-submitted-to-the-advisory-committee-on-asbestos-1976-77

The Simpson Committee effectively reviewed the 1969 Asbestos Regulations. However, it had only the power to make recommendations, not to pass regulations or laws.

Includes:

• company correspondence re lung cancer, 1923-1946, including statistics on occupational lung cancer mortality, lists of 'suspended employees' (= suspended on health grounds) and of employees whose cause of death (as stated by coroner or medical board) involved some degree of asbestosis; also correspondence re Dr Leroy U Gardner's asbestosis research at the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, New York
• correspondence and papers re medical research conducted by Drs T Belt and E J King on behalf of T&N, 1942-1952
• records relating to Drs R Doll and J Knox' study on mortality from lung cancer among asbestos workers, and T&N seeking to suppress the findings, 1953-1954
• records chiefly re epidemiological studies on lung cancer among asbestos workers, 1954-1959
• correspondence and papers re asbestos and health, 1959-1986, including lists of claims settled or still proceeding, list of deaths from lung cancer and mesothelioma, etc

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'.

T&N compensation claims files (incomplete) for 31 cases, in alphabetical order.

Further includes SPAID's manuscript listing attempting to detail the T&N work period of the first 8 cases.

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).

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.