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Photocopy of Federal Register (30 October 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763. Includes a note by Nancy Tait to L Hawkins and J B Kirkham, 17 December 1989, and heavy annotations re "counting of environmental monitoring samples by TEM".

Brian Kirkham, an expert on electron microscopy, was based at the Biological Electron Microscope Unit, Queen Mary College, and at the London Chest Hospital. In the early days of the SPAID Electron Microscope (EM) Unit, SPAID retained Kirkham as an EM consultant. He also trained SPAID's subsequent EM expert Lawrie Hawkins.

'TEM' stands for Transmission Electron Microscopy / Microscope.

Correspondence re enquiries resulting from a Meridian Television ‘Serve you right’ programme on asbestos.

Display board on the case of early mesothelioma affecting a former worker in a brake-lining factory.

Outlines underlying problems with diagnosis of asbestos-related disease, cause of death reporting and mesothelioma statistics: the Pneumoconiosis Medical Panel (PMP) reported no asbestos bodies, whereas electron microscope examination conducted at SPAID's request found significant quantities of chrysotile and crocidolite. PMP failed to tell the coroner that their pathologist had reported early pleural malignant mesothelioma with invasion of the lung; as a result of the omission the death certificate concludes natural causes.

Photocopy of letter to SPAID from Cleveland Constabulary, 1983, re asbestos free brake linings and pads. Mounted and captioned 'Asbestos free brakes'.

Photocopy of typescript ‘Fighting for better standards of protection’, presented at the seminar on ‘Asbestos in practice: health risks and statutory responsibilities’, Institution of Environmental Health Officers, March 1989. Includes handouts / appended material.

The typescript appears to have become SPAID note 32, available at the cost of £ 5.

The Institution of Environmental Health Officers later became the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

Mainly correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re asbestos-related queries re claims against the Ministry of Defence (MOD); also re Australian cases. In reverse chronological order. Includes

• photocopies of SPAID / OEDA "Claims advisory service" sheets
• copies of DSS/DHSS correspondence, solicitors' correspondence
• correspondence with investigative journalists
• photocopies of index cards listing Armed Forces SPAID clients
• press coverage

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes notification if award and LBGU revenue report.

In 1998 the LGB grant year shifted to calendar year.

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.

Copy of OEDA annual report 2002-2003 and minutes of the OEDA annual general meeting, 26 September 2002.

Various versions of SPAID/OEDA publication on the subject of asbestos cement roofing, eventually named ‘Publication XI’, which incorporated SPAID note 27. SPAID note 27 drew on a note by G E ('Ted') Rushworth on the asbestos garage roofs at Langbaurgh; see OEDA/D/2/3, 'Langbaurgh public inquiry'.

Includes original letter from Eternit manager E R R Mengham (May 1983), stating they honestly believed their present asbestos slate range is not harmful.

• board with graph of x-ray micro-analysis for 'Amosite asbestos - air sample' (marked 'B27' at the back)
• board with graph of x-ray micro-analysis for 'Anthophyllite asbestos' (marked 'B31' at the back)
• sheet with graph of x-ray micro-analysis for 'Anthophyllite UICC', 16 February 1989
• board with graph of x-ray micro-analysis for 'Lung extract - asbestos' (marked 'B29' and 'Porter lung extract' at the back)
• board with graph of x-ray micro-analysis for 'Tremolite asbestos' (marked 'B32' at the back)

Correspondence, chiefly with Hampshire Constabulary Coroner’s Office and relatives of victims. Also copies of 26 inquest reports where mesothelioma or asbestosis was named cause of death, 1988-1994, in alphabetical order

Plaintiff's memorandum of law (1989), in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Discusses suppression of asbestos hazard prior to sale of Limpet to Chase Manhattan Bank. Includes a covering letter from Patrick S Guilfoyle of Ashcraft & Gerel, Washington, attorneys of Chase Manhattan Bank.

The lawsuit concerned 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, the first large multi-storey building with sprayed mineral fibre, mostly Limpet.

• (OEDA/K/8/1) ‘Asbestos – a versatile killer’ | BBC Radio Sheffield Jan ‘78’
• (OEDA/K/8/2) ‘Asbestos – a versatile killer’ Pleural Tuesday / Langer part keep p.69’
• (OEDA/K/8/3) ‘SANDY – SF | Selikoff | Pickering’ and ‘Tuesday p.m.’
• (OEDA/K/8/4) ‘Langer | Notes 69’ / ‘Holstein to p.78 | Fischbein 72’
• (OEDA/K/8/5) ‘Thurs p.m. Mock Trial | 16.12.82’ and ‘Thurs p.m. 16th 12.82’
• (OEDA/K/8/6) ‘Mock trial 1’ / ‘Mock trial 2’
• (OEDA/K/8/7) ‘Selikoff Hammond & ?Lung Function | Tuesday am’ / ‘Tuesday a.m.’
• (OEDA/K/8/8) ‘to 96 p.m. Wed?Ener. &?Dis’ and ‘89 Wed p.m.’
• (OEDA/K/8/9) ‘?Rabin | meso | p.78 |?Lillis’
• (OEDA/K/8/10)‘? – working’