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Mounted drawing of ground floor office space at Mitre House, 66 Abbey Road, Enfield, with photographic documentation.

This appears to have been produced by Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP) of Potters Bar, the architectural firm commissioned by SPAID.

Display board with reproduction of floor plan of the SPAID Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU), November 1987, and colour photographs of EMU equipment. Also features the EM technician, presumably Lawrie Hawkins.

The board is labelled 'OEDA', which would date it 1993 or after. However, it looks as if this was not the original labelling.

Poster featuring the electron microscope used at the SPAID / OEDA Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU). Subtitled 'A new name for an exciting microscope providing TEM, SEM and STEM modes, plus elements analysis - that's TEMSCAN'. Additional labels were added by SPAID / OEDA: 'asbestos body' and 'chrysotile'.

Papers and a little covering correspondence re the proposed US Senate bill ‘to amend the Toxic Substance Control Act to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products’ and the contemporary asbestos compensation crisis in the US. Includes

• copy of Senator Murray’s proposed bill
• copies of Judge Griffin B Bell’s June 2002 speeches on asbestos litigation and judicial leadership

In Nancy Tait's circles, people monitoring these developments included Own Tudor, Laurie Kazan-Allen and Adrian Budgeon.

Copy of Federal Register (4 November 1983), OSHA, 29 CFR Part 1910.

A photocopy of this inscribed (in Nancy Tait's hand) 'Is it on America file?' and 'Copy needed for work on GI cancers' was in a research file on gastrointestinal cancer among asbestos workers (q v).

Copy of the booklet.

Poster announcing a seminar on occupational disease, 13-14 September 1979, Chicago.

Issued by the US Department of Labour.

Poster issued by the US Department of Labour.

Prepared by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers (OCAW) International Union, and designed by Joseph Jacobs, written by Molly Coye MD and produced by Dorothy Cochrane.

OSHA No. 3038.

Public service message from the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Photocopy of Code of federal regulations (revised 1 July 1997), EPA, 40 CFR Parts 61 to 62 (Subpart M - national emission standard for asbestos)

Photocopy of Code of federal regulations (revised 1 July 1997), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763 - Asbestos (Subpart E - Asbestos-containing materials in schools).

Photocopy of OSHA 'Asbestos standard for the construction industry' (OSHA 3096, 1995 [Revised])

Photocopy of Federal Register (13 May 1992), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

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.

Photocopy of Federal Register (25 February 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.