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Material relating to the deposition of Dr J M G Davis, in Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

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.

Includes

• handwritten list of exhibits
• Dr Davis's cv
• exhibits: mainly photocopies of pertinent correspondence and copies of Dr Davis' scientific publications

Correspondence and papers re Armley, Yorkshire, and the Armley Asbestos Campaign 1992-1994. Includes:

• press coverage 1992-1996
• correspondence with Irene Merrill of Armley Asbestos Campaign, 1994, and further Armley Asbestos Campaign papers
• Leeds Council press pack, June 1994, including findings of Prof. Roger Wiley, who came to the conclusion that asbestos levels at Armley posed a negligible risk
• copy of briefing by Laurie Kazan-Allen on the Armley asbestos situation, 5 July 1993
• copy of environmental report by Wharfedale Environmental Services Ltd (10 August 1992) ‘Comparison of fibre count results on air samples taken in houses from Armley Area of Leeds between optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy’
• copy of Barrie N Barker (1989) ‘The history of Turner & Newall: review of the history of Turner & Newall Plc and Associated Companies; its dealings with asbestosis related diseases and its Employers’ Liability coverage with the Midland Assurance Ltd and other carriers’ (received from Laurie Kazan-Allen, July 1992)
• annotated copy of HSE Guidance Note EH 10 (Asbestos exposure limits etc.)

Display board featuring black and white photographs from an unidentified text on naval dockyards.

Labelled OEDA.

The following display boards have been disposed of in line with health & safety regulations of the University of Strathclyde:

• ‘Asbestos Insulation’: contained a sample of asbestos rope and asbestos tape in a bag
• ‘Floor Tiles’: contained vinyl-asbestos tile samples; a photograph of the board survives as part of OEDA display 'Asbestos in the environment' (OEDA/C/3/5/7)
• ‘Walls and ceilings’: contained sample of Asbestolux ceiling panels

Collection of leaflets arranged in alphabetical order by reference code, beginning with BAL1 ('Tell us about it') and ending with Z3 ('Compensation recovery scheme'). Within leaflet type, in reverse chronological order.

Replicates the original arrangement. Note however that Nancy Tait's instructions for how new leaflets were to be listed was 'by title - alphabetically' and to 'give leaflet number & date, i.e. (1) Attendance allowance, (2) DS 702, (3) Nov 2002'.

SPAID/OEDA collected benefits leaflets widely. Retained here are those relating directly to the organisation's core activities, such as NI 3 ('If you have pneumoconiosis or byssinosis’) or FB 29 ('Help if someone dies’), while leaflets with no specific relationship with the charity, such as D11 ('NHS dental treatment’) or CWP1 ('Extra help with heating costs’) have been disposed of.

Nancy Tait viewed her organisation as an asbestos action group with a research agenda, rather than simply a victims support group. This perception is very much in line with the charity's trust deed, which lists research into the causes, prevention and treatment of asbestos related disease as its primary objective.

By the mid-1970s, the investigations Nancy Tait had begun following her husband's death in 1968 earned her a fellowship from the Churchill Trust, which allowed her to travel and to seek out international specialists in person. She began to publish her own asbestos literature and to testify as an expert witness, initially on the strength of her intimate knowledge of the impact of a mesothelioma diagnosis, but also of her readings, her exchanges with medical and environmental authorities, and her sheer determination to get to the bottom of how asbestos operated on the human body over time.

As SPAID / OEDA developed, Nancy Tait's investigations drew also on a growing knowledge base of case histories, with detailed medical and legal information. From 1988 onwards that knowledge base was enriched by the evidence provided by the SPAID electron microscope laboratory.

There are four series:

• Research correspondence
• Expert testimony and consulting
• Mesothelioma mortality and death certification
• Criticism of fibre counting

These are followed by smaller aggregations.

Other types of research (e.g. legal, health & safety, industrial injury claims-related, and so forth) can be found throughout the collection, in particular in Sections E (Advocacy) and F (Networking). Research outputs are in OEDA/C/2 (Publications by SPAID / OEDA).

OEDA created dedicated press coverage files, the largest of them a multi-volume series of press cuttings 1976-2007. This is followed by smaller aggregations.

More press coverage can be found throughout the OEDA papers. In the early years the charity monitored the anglophone press (chiefly British national dailies, but also trades magazines and local papers) for information with potential relevance for its mission, and continued to gather news reports until 2006. Some press cuttings came to OEDA from asbestos activists, personal injury lawyers, and well-wishers. Through its international network, OEDA also received media reports from North America, sporadically also from Australia and South Africa.

Some of these holdings are catalogued in the OEDA collection of printed material (see link below), among them incomplete sets of the following titles:

• ‘Engineering Safety’ July 1970-March 1978
• ‘Caution magazine’ vol 7.5 (1981) – vol 12.1 (1986)
• 'Safety practitioner' May + June 1985 and ‘Safety & health practitioner’ May 1991-June 1994 (both Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)

In roughly chronological order, starting with Nancy Tait's interactions with and concerning the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC).

Tait's asbestos research began as a quest for convincing answers regarding the death of her husband William Ashton Tait, who died of mesothelioma in 1968.

Comparatively little material from the early years (1969-1978) of Tait's investigations survives. Gaps include:

• Tait's systematic study, begun in 1972, of the state of knowledge regarding the health risks of asbestos, resulting in her publication of 'Asbestos kills' (1976)
• Tait's application for the Churchill fellowship, awarded to her early in 1976, and correspondence relating to her extensive travels in Europe in 1976
• growing out of this, correspondence and papers documenting Tait's work with the Study Group on Asbestos of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC (Section for Protection of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs) from 1977; much of this, including Nancy Tait's correspondence with Petra Kelly 1976-1981, can be consulted in the Petra Kelly Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin

Correspondence with representatives of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC) and its critics; among the former, AIC director W Penney and AIC deputy chairman Wilfred P Howard.

Topics covered include Nancy Tait's unanswered questions regarding the death of her husband, William Ashton Tait; the facts of asbestos; Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills' (1976); and various AIC publications.

Further includes

• AIC leaflets and technical information notes, among them ‘Asbestos in the home’ (1983) and ‘Asbestos in building’ (1983)
• AIC's commentary on 'Asbestos killer dust' by Alan Dalton / the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science, 1979
• AIC's commentary on Nancy Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'
• documentation re the asbestos industry's intense advertising campaign in June-July 1976
• Tait's detailed criticism of the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) educational leaflets 'Safe working with asbestos'
• a little correspondence with the ARC, 1969-1977

Also includes a little material re the Asbestos International Association (AIA), whose director general at the time, Alex Cross (A A Cross), requested access to the comments of the Study Group on Asbestos of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC (Section for Protection of the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Affairs) on Tait's booklet 'Asbestos kills'.

The AIC was set up by the Asbestos Research Council (ARC) in 1967 to manage asbestos publicity (and lobbying). Sometime in the late 1970s the AIC changed its name to Asbestos Information Centre. Nancy Tait and other critics of the AIC found many of the AIC's statements inaccurate.

The set of aggregations originally contained a photocopy of the AIC's typescript ‘ACA final report - 24 October 1979: Industry Information Kit’. This duplicated material elsewhere in the collection; see link below, 'Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos'.

Compilation of research papers on asbestos-related disease, assessing the risk of asbestos exposure, and analysis of asbestos tissue burden, in alphabetical order (by title of publication). Includes a listing at the front.

• correspondence with and re T&N 1976-1986
• press coverage on T&N, 1975-1986, including news on the company's search for alternatives to its asbestos products 1977, and on the reintroduction of white asbestos by Eternit TAC Ltd, 1986
• material relating specifically to the Shabani mine (since 1983: Zvishavane), Zimbabwe, including copy of an offer of employment dated 1981
• photocopies of various undated typescripts on T&N and public health risk, T&N research on asbestos substitutes, assessment of health & safety equipment, copy of T&N shop steward Norman Pollard’s report ‘Unsafe at any level: asbestos as a hazard to health’
• photocopy of T&N ‘Q&A: the Asbestos Regulations, 1969’ (1969)

Further publications can be found in the OEDA collection of printed material; see link below.