Mostrar 24281 resultados

Correspondence and papers (chiefly papers) relating to the Cape Asbestos Fund. Includes successive proposals 'for a scheme of arrangement in respect of asbestos liabilities’.

Flynn's listing of his personal papers on Cape Industries.

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.

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.

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

• 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

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.