Correspondence and papers re airborne dust (in particular asbestos) in the London underground system. Key correspondents include MPs Anthony Berry and Max Madden, as well as the Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), J J McMorrow.
Includes:
- correspondence on low toxicity cables, 1978 (and 1982), between Nancy Tait and Berry, Madden, McMorrow, Sidney Weighell (General Secretary of the NUR) and various suppliers of low toxicity cable
- press coverage 1976-1980
- circulars of the NUR, 1980
- typescript of a report by McMorrow on a meeting of SPAID held at the Friends’ House, Euston, 10 March 1979
- correspondence with Victor Platt of Chingford, December 1978 and January 1979; Platt edited a health and safety bulletin “for trainmen on the east end of the Piccadilly Line”
- London Transport press information, April-July 1978
- Nancy Tait’s research notes and correspondence with Berry and Madden, May-June 1978
- photocopies of correspondence between McMorrow and the Department of Transport, the Health & Safety Commission, etc.
- copies of London Transport Executive’s notes of two meetings between the Management and the representatives of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, the NUR, and the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association, 13 December 1977 and 24 April 1978
- announcement of British Society for Responsibility in Science press conference on asbestos dust in the London underground, 28 November 1977
- photocopies of leaflet ‘Killer dust on the tube’, prepared by McMorrow and the London Work Hazards Group, published by British Society for Responsibility in Science, 1977
- correspondence re the death of railwayman Charles Maurice Hayward, 28 May 1977
- photocopies of correspondence between McMorrow and Prof. E J Shellard re glass fibre dust, 1976
A letter from Nancy Tait to McMorrow, September 1976, originally contained an extensive enclosure: Johns Manville Corporation's response to the US Department of Labour, April 1976, re the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) proposed rulemaking on occupational exposure to asbestos. This duplicated material elsewhere in the collection. See link below.