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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'

• 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)

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage) relating to the administration of global manufacturer of automotive & vehicle safety products Federal Mogul's chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. Federal Mogul had acquired the international asbestos manufacturer Turner & Newall in 1998. In 2001, Federal Mogul sought chapter 11 protection in the US and Administration under the Insolvency Act 1986 in the UK.

Correspondence is chiefly with solicitors, also with Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group (GMAVSG).

Originals of Turner & Newall 'Report and accounts' 1976-1981 and some other company performance reports.

Annotated copies of tables ('Airborne asbestos dust survey results 1961-1972') presented by Turner & Newall plc to the Advisory Committee on Asbestos, yet not included in the published evidence.

Handwritten note added: “I would be glad to know of any conclusions you draw from them”.

Also includes draft letter to G Berry (MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit, Penarth), final version sent 4 March 1980, discussing the Simpson Report. It appears that Nancy Tait had recently visited the Penarth Unit.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage), predominantly 2001-2006, re the former Turner Brothers Asbestos (TBA) Company site at Rochdale, Greater Manchester). Includes a little correspondence with Jason Addy of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors and with Barbara Balmer (daughter of Alan Balmer, asbestos victim). Themes covered include campaigning for compensation, redevelopment of the site, creation of an asbestos memorial for Nellie Kershaw, the first asbestos death on record (d.1924).

Includes a photocopy of 'Turner & Newall: the first fifty years' (c.1970) and other earlier material.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Robert Pointer, Tyne & Wear Asbestos Support Group / Barrow Asbestos-related Disease Support Group, re awareness-raising concerning the dangers of asbestos. Starts with request Pointer for information to be used at TUC annual conference, later foundation asbestos victims support group.

Correspondence re the Tyneside Hazards Group / the 'Tyneside occupational health pilot project'. Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) is chiefly with William (Bill) Lawrence and includes press coverage, conference information, and some case information.

• board with black and white photograph mounted (marked 'Ultra thin' at front and 'B34' at the back; stamped 'Queen Mary College Biological Electron Microscope Unit')
• black and white photograph, two sizes, of object under microscope; '10kv x1,000 10μm 541005'

Correspondence with various unions (in roughly alphabetical order by name of union). Includes publicity leaflets, press cuttings, copies of

• International Metalworkers’ Federation (1979) ‘Action programme against asbestos’ (at AUEW)
• Peter Kirby (c.1982) ‘Death in the textile industry: a proportional mortality study of 952 dyers, bleachers and textile workers who died between 1976-1980’ (at TGWU)

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers, among them press releases, press coverage, articles, etc. In alphabetical order by name of union. Includes copies of

• Tony O'Brien [2001] 'The fight to ban asbestos 1995-2000: construction safety campaign'
• T & G (1998) 'Canadian asbestos kills: ban all asbestos'
• Martin Stott (1983) ‘Fit as a fiddle? Case studies on international industrial health hazards’ (Trade Union International Research and Education Group)

Papers on the following victim support groups: Southampton Asbestosis and Mesothelioma Society, Swindon and South West Asbestos Group. Very little material.

Correspondence and papers. Includes a copy of typescript Cancer Education Co-ordination Group (CECG) (1986) 'Life after cancer diagnosis'.

Captions formerly used in displays, among them 'Diagram of houses constructed for the removal of crocidolite asbestos insulation from British Rail rolling stock', 'Mr David Cox prefers the carbon fibre suit he wore when operating the giant Catherine wheel at the royal wedding fireworks', 'An asbestos free brake pad is available in Australia [etc]' and 'Environmental exposure to asbestos'.

Various leaflets and booklets.