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

• transcript

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.

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

• transcript

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.

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston in conversation with South Wales miner Les Higgon, Gorseinon, 10 May 2004.

• sound recording (46 minutes 38 seconds) and transcript

Interview C30.

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston in conversation with a nurse / health visitor in Wales, 29 June 2004.

• sound recording (1 hour 9 minutes 1 second) and transcript

Interview not coded.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male ship's plumber b.1931, 21 December 1998.

• sound recording (0h 33m 58s) and transcript

Tape 192. Consent form A02, formerly coded A65.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male marine engineer b.1940, 25 January 1999.

• sound recording (0h 31m 21s) and transcript

Tape 196. Consent form A12, formerly coded A26.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male sheet metal worker b.1928, 1 February 1999.

• sound recording (0h 43m 30s) and transcript

Tape 198. Consent form A09, formerly coded A44.

Conversation between R Johnston and *B47, 22 February 2000.

• sound recording (0h 18m 10s), no transcript

Tape 205. No code was found for this interview; the ID "*B47" has been randomly assigned by the Archives Service. Even after qualitative enhancement was sound quality found to be too poor for transcription.

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

• transcript

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.

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston in conversation with a Welsh miner, 28 June 2004.

• sound recording (1 hour 11 minutes 28 seconds) and transcript

Interview not coded.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male insulation engineer b.1920, 21 December 1998.

• sound recording (0h 25m 25s) and transcript

Tape 191. Consent form A01, formerly coded A79.

Ronald Johnston in conversation with a male joiner b.1945, 20 or 22 January 1999.

• sound recording (0h 31m 10s) and transcript

Tape 194. Consent form A17, formerly also coded A17.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male fitter b.1924, 25 January 1999.

• sound recording (0h 22m 15s) and transcript

Tape 195. Consent form A05, formerly coded A80.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male shipyard rigger b.1922, 3 February 1999.

• sound recording (0h 29m 23s) and transcript

Tape 199. Consent form A18, formerly coded A24.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male boilerplate maker b.1927, 23 February 1999 (or possibly 25 January 1999).

• sound recording (0h 56m 42s) and transcript

Tape 201. Consent form A03, formerly coded A5.