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Microfiches of company registration documents.

Also photocopies of the following:

• successive versions of Memorandum and Articles of Association, Cape Asbestos Company Ltd / Cape Industries Ltd
• Memorandum and Articles of Association, Cape Industries Overseas Ltd
• particulars of Directors and Secretaries, notifications of changes
• certificates of incorporation
• diverse company registration papers 1975-1980
• Register of Mortgages and Charges, etc. Company Search Report 1996

A key focus of Flynn’s asbestos-related investigations were the activities of Cape Industries Ltd, registered in December 1893 as Cape Asbestos Company Ltd (name changed in 1974). The series listed here includes early registration documents, Cape Industries annual reports from 1974, as well as a run of the companies' house journal ‘CAC Magazine’, 1951-1963. For further business papers of Cape Industries, see also FLYNN 2/2.

Correspondence and papers (chiefly papers) relating to the South African law suit against Cape Asbestos.

Includes papers of BAMCWU, the Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers’ Union, which organised workers in the Penge mine in the Sekhukhune District, South Africa. Also includes a photocopy of extract from Union of South Africa, Department of Mines and Industries 'Annual report of the Government Mining Engineer for the calendar year ended 31 December 1915'.

Research papers of Geoffrey Tweedale gathered during the course of his research for his book 'Magic mineral to killer dust: Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard' (2nd edition, 2001: Oxford University Press), which investigated the British company, Turner & Newall, one of the world's leading asbestos manufacturers.

The collection comprises:

• Copies of more or less complete run of Turner & Newall compensation cases, 1921-1990s (c. 700 files). The copies were made by Tweedale from microfilms of the Turner & Newall company archives made by Chase Manhattan Bank in 1991 as part of a court case initiated in the USA by the Bank against Turner & Newall. Tweedale made a special study of these case files.
• Series of subject files. The bulk of the contents is copies of correspondence and papers from the Turner & Newall archives. However, the series also contains material from other sources as well as Tweedale’s own notes and correspondence. Most of the material relates to Turner & Newall, but there is also material on other companies eg Johns Manville in the USA, Eternit, and Cape Asbestos as well as material on Canada, South Africa, and Australia. The series also includes biographical information on related people as well as press cuttings collected by Tweedale.
• A selection of videotapes and DVDs mostly relating to Turner & Newall plus several transcripts of TV/radio programmes, dating back to the 1970s and early 1980s.

Communications and documentation obtained chiefly through contacts with American litigators whose clients included victims of asbestos-related disease. First among these litigators was James Walker of Walker & Wylder, Bloomington, Illinois, whose correspondence and document exchange with Flynn started c.1982.

Cape's North American subsidiaries included:

• North American Asbestos Corporation (NAAC)
• Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (Unarco)
• PPG Industries Inc.

• set of court papers in the matter of Charlotte Hammond v. Circuit Court of Cook Country et al. (1981), Supreme Court of the State of Illinois; & Charlotte Hammond v. Cape Industries Limited & NAAC (1981), Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, County of McLean, Illinois
• photocopies of medical death certificates issued in Illinois 1978-1981
• photocopies c.1979 of papers from James Bennett's claim against the Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (Unarco) of Chicago, 1940
• photocopies of correspondence between Unarco and its insurers over occupational disease, 1952-1958
• short publication on asbestos heir Tommy Manville, 1940

Photocopies of 'Cape Asbestos Company Magazine' (the house journal of Cape Asbestos Company Ltd), December 1951 to Autumn 1963.

Contains occasional post-it markers by either Flynn or Tweedale.

• press clippings 1977-1983
• photocopies of North American Asbestos Corporation (NAAC) correspondence and papers 1953-1983, including solicitors correspondence
• (marked) copy of memorandum by Richard K Decker, November 1962, advising on legal interpretation of the relationship between Cape and its subsidiary NAAC viz. whether US courts would be inclined to think they have jurisdiction of Cape, (a) because Cape's effect on US trade could be shown to be direct and substantial, and (b) because the NAAC as Cape's agent plays an active part in Cape's business which "is continuous and could not be easily carried out without NAAC"

Originally contained a (duplicate) copy of the deposition of William S Haines (June 1980), in Charlotte Hammond v. Cape Industries & NAAC, etc. See FLYNN/2/3/4

Set of exhibits, marked and annotated. Includes:

• civil subpoena of Max E Meyer in Delora Stewart et al. / Geneva Eileen Mau et al., both v. NAAC, 1987
• reponse to request to admit in Delora Stewart et al. v. NAAC (8 January 1987), Circuit Court of the Eleventh Circuit, McLean County, Illinois
• answers to interrogatories in Dorothy Betts et al. v. Unarco Industries et al. (1985), Circuit Court of the Eleventh Circuit, McLean County, Illinois
• Cape Asbestos correspondence 1954-1985, including between Richard Gaze (the company's chief scientist), company solicitors, additional legal support (Davis, Arnold & Cooper Solicitors, London; Lord Bissell & Brook, Chicago). See also Gaze deposition at FLYNN/2/3/3

• coroner's report on Edwin W Holland, d. 2 April 1985 (plaintiff’s exhibit)

NAAC correspondence, as follows:

• 1974-1976 (chiefly between Joan Holtze, NAAC, and J L Sparks, Group Financial Controller of Cape Industries Ltd, London)
• 1969-1973 (chiefly from and to Charles G Morgan / Joan Holtze (both NAAC) and representatives of Cape Asbestos in the UK, South Africa and subsidiaries elsewhere)
• 1962-1968: correspondence of Robert E Cryor including minutes of shareholder meetings and meetings of company directors

• Cape/subsidiaries correspondence 1964-1972. Source uncertain (no exhibit marks, no covering correspondence)
• instructions from J L Sparks, Group Financial Controller Cape Industries Limited, to Financial Directors/Company Secretaries – all subsidiaries, 1974-1978

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)

Annotated copies (photocopies and/or originals) of Cape Industries / Cape plc annual reports and accounts 1974-2000, incomplete set (1984, 1997 and 1999 missing).

1976-1986: includes also reviews.

There also is an original Charter Consolidated annual report 1981.

Correspondence and news coverage following the out of court settlement in the South African group action brought against Cape plc (formerly Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, from 1974 Cape Industries Ltd) in December 2001, after a 5 year battle. Also earlier notes, correspondence and research materials on the South African asbestos industry. Includes:

• correspondence with ITV re a film project 'You will know us by the trail of death' (originally outlined in 1988 under the title 'Outrageous misconduct - asbestos as metaphor'; see FLYNN/2/1/3)
• set of microfiches of Charter Consolidated company papers, filmed 1978
• Flynn's handwritten notes on his background research c.1980-1982, including on the suppression of the research of the Johannesburg Pneumoconiosis Research Unit
• correspondence between Richard Creasey (BBC, formerly World in Action) and Anthony Mendelle (employee at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking 1956-1968) following the BBC documentary 'The right to know', April 1974, re producing a WIA documentary about Cape Asbestos in South Africa. See also Mendelle deposition (1984) at FLYNN/1/2/6. Creasey had conducted the investigation for WIA documentary 'The dust at Acre Mill' (transmitted in June 1971), the first programme to bring the lethal dangers of asbestos to the attention of the general public, on the example of the Acre Mill asbestos factory at Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.