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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.

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.

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

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

Correspondence and papers re health and asbestos, in particular crocidolite (blue asbestos) 1959-1982.

The aggregation was triggered by J C Wagner's discovery, in South Africa, of a probable relationship between exposure to crocidolite and mesothelioma. (See Wagner (1959), 'Some pathological aspects of asbestos in the Union of South Africa', in \Proceedings of the Pneumoconiosis Conference held at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, 1959\, ed. A J Orenstein (London: J&A Churchhill Ltd, 1960): 383–390).

Closes with a 6pp summary ‘T&N’s use and sale of blue asbestos’ (n.d.) and listing of ‘Asbestos and health: possible questions’ by PR company Hill and Knowlton International, London, c.1982.

Further includes photocopies of ‘Bulletin JWR’ (n.d., c.1960s).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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