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Deposition of Professor Richard Selwyn Francis Schilling (12 January 1994, London), in Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Includes:

• copy of the deposition
• plaintiff’s exhibits, 1954-1993, among them Schilling's cv and correspondence substantiating Schilling’s claim that the Director of Turner Brothers Asbestos attempted to suppress the publication of Richard Doll’s study on mortality from lung cancer among asbestos workers, published in ‘British journal of industrial medicine’, 1955

Schilling was an authority on occupational health.

Paper and correspondence. Includes

• correspondence with HSC/HSE and press releases, 2000-2001, re guidance on controlling risks from exposure to asbestos, launch of proposals & initiatives to protect workers at risk from contracting asbestos related disease, etc
• correspondence 1993 re authentication of Factory Inspectorate letters on ‘asbestos insulation aboard ships’, 1945
• correspondence re and lists of contractors for asbestos removal 1991-1992
• HSE consultative document on personal protective equipment, ?1992, and guidance notes on protective equipment c.1981-1990
• HSE news release ‘The British approach to control of health hazards in the workplace’, 4 April 1979
• typescript of Miss L A Pittom (formerly HSE) ‘Legislative control of toxic hazards: the approach in the UK’, address given at the BOHS annual conference 1979, dated 4 April 1979
• photocopy of ‘British Standard Specification for canister respirators (‘gas masks’) and dust respirators (‘dust masks’)' 1954 and some subsequent amendments

Copies of Home Office circulars relating to coroners, 1954-1982, and of 'Home Office statistical bulletin' 1982, 1983 (Coroners' statistics: England and Wales). In reverse chronological order.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage), predominantly 2001-2006, re the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) Company site at Rochdale, Greater Manchester). Includes a little correspondence with Jason Addy of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and with Barbara Balmer (daughter of Alan Balmer, asbestos victim). Themes covered include campaigning for compensation, redevelopment of the site, creation of an asbestos memorial for Nellie Kershaw, the first asbestos death on record (d.1924).

Includes a photocopy of 'Turner & Newall: the first fifty years' (c.1970) and other earlier material.

Photographs of individuals, some named.
Photographs as follows:
-black and white group photograph, depicting a meeting, with caption on the reverse: 'Mr Bill Simpson, Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission and the Advisory Committee on Asbestos starts the proceedings at the first of the Advisory Committee's three open meetings'
-2 mounted colour photographs of a man in a factory setting, and a view of a factory floor, both labelled 'Mr A G Emberton', c1970s
-2 black and white portrait photographs mounted on either side of A4 paper: one labelled 'Roy Slattery Hebden Bridge' and the other labelled 'Brian Schnacke "Sometimes we stood a foot deep in the dust"'
-1 colour and 1 black and white photograph mounted on A4 paper. Colour photograph depicts an employee driving a fork lift truck, unlabelled. The black and white photograph depicts a gentleman operating a table saw and is labelled 'Mr O'Neill, June 1959'
-black and white portrait photograph mounted on A4 paper labelled 'Mereweather, H' S Ex'

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'

Tables of compensation suits aggregated by employer, in alphabetical order (by name of employer). Capturing employer’s name, previous names, address, still trading yes/no, insurer’s name and address, followed by a table capturing case name, age, address, alive/dead, solicitor’s name, and compensation paid.

Further includes

• correspondence chiefly with solicitors asking for employer information, occasionally photocopies of employer index cards (possibly the previous filing system?)
• lists of case names compiled by disease with cross reference to case number
• photocopies from literature on 'Substances used by plumbers obtained for Murray case' and re sprayed asbestos and other asbestos news in the magazine 'Insulation review', 1959-1965 etc.

• photocopy of 'Amianto floccato e altri materiali a base d'amianto debolment agglomerato (amianto DA)’ (Commissione federale di coordinamento per la sicurezza sul lavoro, Direttive No 6503, Edizione 1.91)
• copy of ‘La substitution de l’amiante en Suisse’ (Office fédéral de l'environnement, des forêts et du paysage, Berne: 1989)
• copy of ‘Amianto e ambiente di lavoro: punto della situazione e previsioni’ (Rivista svizzera sulla sicurezza nel lavoro, No 149: 1988)
• copy of 'Eternit: inquinamento e potere: una multinazionale dell'amianto' (Partita Socialista dei Lavoratori, Commissione Ecologia e Salute, Robert Lochhead: 1983)
• photocopies of internal circular of the Swiss railway, 1988, and of ordinances 1960 and 1986

Most likely this material came to OEDA in conjunction with the international meeting 'Convegno Internazionale Bastamianto', 17-18 April 1993, Milan, Italy, where Nancy Tait was an invited speaker. See link below.

Photocopies of research literature, in alphabetical order (by surname of author). Further includes bibliography, also handwritten notes on some of the papers.

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

Correspondence with and re Justice for Asbestos Victims (JAV) Northern Ireland and the BBC Northern Ireland, 2003-2006. Also earlier historic documentation on asbestos in Belfast.

• photocopy of (1982) ‘Dust in the London underground: a report by London Transport’
• photocopy of (March-April 1978) ‘International environment & safety: asbestos monitoring’
• photocopy of A Jackson and D F Croome (1962) ‘Rails through the clay: a history of London’s tube railways’

Correspondence with Paul Cooper of Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) York. Includes an autopsy report and other medical information. Among topics covered are issues with York pathologists and coroners, and concerns over exposure to asbestos of British Rail passengers. Also a little correspondence re foundation of the York Asbestos Support Group in 2006. Papers include testimony by former British Rail coach builders and asbestos sprayers, and photocopies of confidential J W Roberts Ltd communications re fibre levels produced by the 'Limpet' asbestos cement spray process, 1962.

Paul Cooper long campaigned on behalf of former carriageworks employees who suffered from asbestos-related illnesses. He retired as secretary of the TGWU York branch c. 2010.

Correspondence and papers re campaign to improve compensation (in particular concerning asbestos injury) for ex-servicemen and their dependents. The reference is to Section 10 of the Crown Proceedings Act (exclusion from liability in tort in cases involving the Armed Forces). Includes

• excerpts from Hansards, correspondence with MPs
• correspondence with solicitors
• extensive material re conference 'to discuss compensation for ex-service personnel suffering from exposure to asbestos', 21 May 1996

Notes and annotated copies of research papers re interpretation of fibre counts. Includes copies of

• copy of letter from Dr Allen Gibbs to the coroner of Staffordshire South, June 2000, critiquing OEDA analysis of lung tissue
• Nancy Tait's extended cv, version May 2001
• draft OEDA note 'Asbestos - lung cancer...?' c.1998
• HSE table ‘Death certificates mentioning specified asbestos related disease’ (1997)
• 'SPAID controls 1993'; as Nancy Tait explained, controls were not actually relevant to SPAID's work, which identified type rather than amount of asbestos present
• excerpt from Dr Allen Gibbs' testimony in the inquest on Mr Wiltshire, April 1988

This is followed by a set of scientific publications 1965-2000 arranged by reference number, many of them annotated by Nancy Tait. The text references these sources has not been identified.

The inscription 'Salter' may refer to a then current case with which OEDA was involved.