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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 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 and papers, chiefly re a visit of H C Lewinsohn (Chief Medical Officer, TBA Industrial Products Ltd) to India, November 1975.

Includes

• memoranda on T&N occupational health and safety policy
• instructions to T&N companies overseas to take up dust sampling and medical examinations, etc., 1972 onwards
• photocopies of index cards relating to information about overseas companies
• a little material 1965-1967 relating to the Asbestos Research Council Subcommittee on Health Precautions in the Insulation Contracting Industry, whose membership was recruited from the asbestos industry (mainly Cape Asbestos and T&N)

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

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".

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.

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.

Correspondence re asbestosis litigation in the US.

T&N records re legal costs of asbestos claims. Includes copies of lawyers' bills, records of claims payments, etc.

Copies of tabled information re claimants and the status of claims; also analysis by occupation.

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).

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.

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.

Correspondence and papers (including minutes of board meetings re ex gratia payments to widows of industrial disease cases).