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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".

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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".

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).