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Correspondence with John Todd, 1976-1983
GB 249 OEDA/F/3/6/3 · Dossier · 1971-1983
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
  • correspondence chiefly with John Todd re how he and his fellow laggers are affected by asbestos and re his awareness raising campaign; also with the TGWU, health and safety experts, the media
  • correspondence with Margaret Bain (MP East Dunbartonshire) and John Healey (of Leven, Fife)
  • photocopies of John Todd's correspondence with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), the environmental health department of the city of Glasgow, the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), various newspapers, and the TGWU
  • press coverage 1974-1976 and other papers
GB 249 OEDA/E/1/1 · Dossier · 1976-1977
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Photocopies of correspondence and papers (including press cuttings), in reverse chronological order. Includes

  • Nancy Tait's call, in March 1977, for an Asbestos Protection Trust to be set up with the aim of providing "information and sympathetic advice [to those] who develop asbestos diseases and their families", and "information and encouragement [to] individuals and organisations working to ensure the safety of those using asbestos and its substitutes"
  • correspondence with future trustees of SPAID, among other things seeking advice on the Health & Safety Commission's (HSC) reluctance to accept Tait's evidence
  • correspondence with experts (Prof. P C Elmes of the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit at Penarth, Prof. I Selikoff, Prof. P E Enterline (biostatistician at the University of Pittsburgh), Barry Castleman, Prof. Patrick Lawther of the MRC Air Pollution Unit); with the asbestos industry (Turner & Newall, the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), Cape Industries); with trade union representatives including the Irish Transport & General Workers Union, and re Judge Rene Beaudry's 393-page preliminary report on the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada; according to Beaudry the provincial asbestos limit to be enforced in 1978 was inadequate
  • correspondence relating to a television appearance during which Tait showed a cooking mat with an asbestos warning label, transmitted late January / early February 1977, and correspondence arising from a radio broadcast featuring Tait on asbestos (BBC 'World this weekend', 30 January 1977)
  • a little correspondence with families of individuals suffering from asbestos-related disease
  • copy of Tait's 'Asbestos press release', spring 1977
GB 249 OEDA/G/2/2/1 · Dossier · Correspondence 1983-2002
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
  • correspondence and papers re Rita Ann Ashdown, mesothelioma victim, who had lived in a Council flat on the Harts Lane Estate in Barking, the former site of a Cape Asbestos factory. Includes particulars of claim Rita Ann Ashdown v. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2002; press coverage 2001-2003
  • correspondence and papers re Barbara Ann Mead, d. 2002 of mesothelioma: transcript of coroners proceedings
  • correspondence and papers re Barking, 1993-2001, including telephone memoranda, solicitors’ correspondence and press coverage
  • copy of a report by Dr Kevin Browne, 25 January 1995, on a recent claim brought against Cape by a Barking resident
  • correspondence with Peter Brady, Dublin, 1986, on his own case against Cape, including photocopy of minutes of a meeting of directors of Cape Insulation (Ireland) Ltd, 1977
  • SPAID correspondence re Barking 1983-1986
  • articles on SPAID‘s work 1984-1985, typescript of case notes Homerton University Hospital, Hackney, from Nancy Tait’s presentation (with Dr V J Harvey), ‘Mesothelioma patients referred to Hackney Hospital – a preliminary report’, Anglo-French Social Medicine conference, Winchester, 1983
  • reports (1983) on safety arrangements at Cape Asbestos, Barking, and copies of related records 1956-1968, received through Anthony T Mendelle via litigator Richard Meeran. Including photocopies of Cape Asbestos Barking Factory Annual Report 1961 & 1962, also report on a visit to Cape subsidiary plants in the USA (n.d.). Mendelle was products manager (1956-1960) and production manager (1960-1968) at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking
Killer dust and British Rail
GB 249 OEDA/E/1/3 · Dossier · c.1973-1991
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives
  • correspondence and papers (including press coverage) re British Rail 1985-1991
  • correspondence and press reports re Ralph Pickett, 1974-1978; Mr Pickett (d.1977) had worked in an engineering workshop of British Rail for 25 years and developed asbestosis
  • correspondence with F C Walmsley of British Rail Eastern region re effects of asbestos dust, 1975
Turner & Newall 1940s-1998
GB 249 OEDA/G/13/2 · Dossier · c.1959-1998
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Papers (including press coverage) documenting Turner & Newall plc activities, attitudes to health and safety, working conditions (etc.) 1940s-1998. Includes:

  • copy judgement (1998) in Eileen Hare (suing as executrix of Joseph Arthur Hartles and Annie Hartles, both deceased) v. TAC Construction Materials Ltd, Liverpool County Court
  • T&N gas contracts (UK) 1995-1998
  • annotated copy of draft judgement (1 May 1996) in David Stanley Durham v. T&N plc and Annette Beryl Durham v. T&N plc, Court of Appeal
  • statement by former engineer Peter Turnbull Smith (September 1993) on his working history and the impact of asbestos exposure on his health; the statement prompted Nancy Tait to ask ‘do we have a T&N file? Other than Chace [sic]. Please start one’
  • copy of House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee, ‘Competitiveness of UK manufacturing industry: minutes of evidence Wednesday 23 June 1993: Rover Group plc – Mr George Simpson, T&N plc – Mr Colin Hope’
  • copy of ‘T&N 1982 review’
  • photocopy ‘Selected written evidence submitted to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos 1976-77’, pp. 134-147, 'The production and use of Turner & Newall asbestos products'
Judgements and legal opinions
GB 249 OEDA/K/4/2 · Dossier · 1961-2007
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Copies of judgements, legal opinions, advice on liability, occasionally dependancy schedules, affidavits, particulars of claim (including clinical information), skeleton arguments in preparation of a case, witness statements, transcripts of proceedings and press coverage. In alphabetical order.

  • front matter includes list of settlements (asbestos related, asthma, Berylium related) as well as summaries of selected judgements 1961-1984
  • occasional notes suggest that SPAID/OEDA supplied copies of judgements for a fee
'Individual' Correspondence
GB 249 OEDA/H/4 · Dossier · 1980-1983
Fait partie de Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Correspondence, filed in alphabetical order, A-Z by surname, dating from 1980-1983.
The annotations at the top of the letters read 'Individual correspondence' and the surname of the correspondent.

Includes topics of correspondence such as:
-building a network of contacts to support cases
-subscriptions to SPAID news
-thanks to Moira Anderson for her programme on asbestos
-blue asbestos research
-EEC Directives
-the presence of asbestos in buildings
-SPAID fellowship
-the SPAID newsletter
-people seeking information for cases
-students seeking information for dissertations

Mainly copies of outgoing correspondence but some incoming correspondence.