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Conversation between R Johnston and a 56 year-old retired insulation engineer, 15 March 1999.

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Consent form A16, formerly coded A29.

The participant had worked with asbestos since he left school and was suffering from bilateral pleural thickening.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

Conversation between R Johnston and a 69 year-old retired insurance agent, 17 March 1999.

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Consent form A15, formerly coded A40.

The participant had worked as an engineer in the Ailsa shipyard in Troon in the late 40s and early 50s, where he was heavily exposed to asbestos.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

Conversation between R Johnston and a 58 year-old retired civil servant, 18 March 1999.

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Consent form A07, formerly coded A71.

The participant had worked in brickworks in the late 1950s. He was diagnosed as suffering from asbestosis, caused (he thinks) by presence of asbestos in an office.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

Conversation between R Johnston and the 66 year-old widow of an electrical engineer who had recently died of mesothelioma, 22 March 1999.

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Consent form A20, formerly coded B1.

The participant's husband was exposed to asbestos in the 1950s while working on a demolition contract. Interview also contains interesting testimony regarding her overseas’ work experience.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

Conversation between R Johnston, A McIvor and four male participants, 1 December 1999.

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Consent form A22, formerly coded A96.

The participants were a 66 year old insulation engineer, a T&G Convenor b.1946, a 62 year old former electrician and insulation engineer with 100% asbestosis who had worked at the Marinite Factory in Springburn, and a male insulation engineer b.1917.

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer

Conversation between between R Johnston, A McIvor, an 81-year old insulation engineer, and a 72-year old lagger who worked at the Grangemouth shipyard. T&G office, Glasgow, 1 December 1999.

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Consent form A23, formerly coded B9.

This appears to be a continuation of the previous interview - same participants?

Johnston, Ronald James, b. c. 1960, oral historian, researcher, writer