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Correspondence with John Todd, a prominent representative of the Glasgow branch of the TGWU, 1984-1986.

Includes Todd’s medical notes, e-mails on his death in 2004, copy of extract of his father's entry in the Register of Deaths in 1944.

Successive versions of John Todd's compilation on asbestos victims from the Glasgow branch of the TGWU, 1975-1983, and correspondence with the victims 1967-1979.

Photocopies of correspondence and papers (including press cuttings), in reverse chronological order. Includes

• Nancy Tait's call, in March 1977, for an Asbestos Protection Trust to be set up with the aim of providing "information and sympathetic advice [to those] who develop asbestos diseases and their families", and "information and encouragement [to] individuals and organisations working to ensure the safety of those using asbestos and its substitutes"
• correspondence with future trustees of SPAID, among other things seeking advice on the Health & Safety Commission's (HSC) reluctance to accept Tait's evidence
• correspondence with experts (Prof. P C Elmes of the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit at Penarth, Prof. I Selikoff, Prof. P E Enterline (biostatistician at the University of Pittsburgh), Barry Castleman, Prof. Patrick Lawther of the MRC Air Pollution Unit); with the asbestos industry (Turner & Newall, the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), Cape Industries); with trade union representatives including the Irish Transport & General Workers Union, and re Judge Rene Beaudry's 393-page preliminary report on the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada; according to Beaudry the provincial asbestos limit to be enforced in 1978 was inadequate
• correspondence relating to a television appearance during which Tait showed a cooking mat with an asbestos warning label, transmitted late January / early February 1977, and correspondence arising from a radio broadcast featuring Tait on asbestos (BBC 'World this weekend', 30 January 1977)
• a little correspondence with families of individuals suffering from asbestos-related disease
• copy of Tait's 'Asbestos press release', spring 1977

• correspondence and papers (including press coverage) re British Rail 1985-1991
• correspondence and press reports re Ralph Pickett, 1974-1978; Mr Pickett (d.1977) had worked in an engineering workshop of British Rail for 25 years and developed asbestosis
• correspondence with F C Walmsley of British Rail Eastern region re effects of asbestos dust, 1975

A single spiral bound notebook with handwritten notes inside, in Nancy Tait's handwriting.
Notes cover topics such as: case details; regulations; research into fibres; political questions; monitoring of asbestos; and general research notes.

Six series, each of them representing a type of information service provided by SPAID / OEDA. As follows:

• fielding occupational and environmental health enquiries
• publications by the organisation
• display boards and posters generated for use at meetings, conferences and around the office
• responses to requests for information from solicitors
• responses to requests for information from the media

The section concludes with a small series relating to compensation claims against the Johns-Manville Corporation / the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust.

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'

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, filed in alphabetical order, A-Z by surname, dating from 1980-1983.
The annotations at the top of the letters read 'Individual correspondence' and the surname of the correspondent.

Includes topics of correspondence such as:
-building a network of contacts to support cases
-subscriptions to SPAID news
-thanks to Moira Anderson for her programme on asbestos
-blue asbestos research
-EEC Directives
-the presence of asbestos in buildings
-SPAID fellowship
-the SPAID newsletter
-people seeking information for cases
-students seeking information for dissertations

Mainly copies of outgoing correspondence but some incoming correspondence.

Analytics of telephone calls 1997-1999. Also includes a set of telephone memoranda and correspondence, July 1991 to January 1997.

Memoranda of incoming telephone calls, August to December 1990. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.

Memoranda of incoming telephone calls, January to December 1991. In reverse chronological order. Mostly photocopies.