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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.

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

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 (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

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.

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

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.

Corporate correspondence and papers on asbestos and health, including information leaflets on the topic, and safety labelling for asbestos products. Predominantly 1972-1986.

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).

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 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 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 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).

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.

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'.