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27 interviews with sufferers from asbestos-related disease and/or members of their families. Sound recordings and transcripts (17), transcript only (10), or sound only (1). Also questionnaires.

Anonymity was assured to all project participants. Only Owen and Margaret Lilley (SOHC 4/14) opted out.

One recording had been mistakenly aggregated with this oral history project but was found not to relate to asbestos. As a result , there is no interview with the reference number SOHC 4/12.

Conversation between R Johnston and the widow of a consultant quantity surveyor, b. 1933, 2 February 1998.

• sound recording (0h 42m 22s) and transcript

Tape 189. Consent form A21, formerly coded B4.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male joiner, b. 1926, 19 November 1998. The date 19 January 1999 is also given in the transcript.

• sound recording (0h44m 30s) and transcript

Tape 190. Consent form A8, formerly coded A21.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male insulation engineer b.1930, 26 January 1999.

• sound recording (0h 44m 24s) and transcript

Tape 197. Consent form A14, formerly coded B12.

Conversation between R Johnston and a retired marine engineer b.1931, 9 May 1999

• transcript

Consent form A11, formerly coded A39.

Conversation between R Johnston, A McIvor and four male participants, 1 December 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A22, formerly coded A96.

The participants were a 66 year old insulation engineer, a T&G Convenor b.1946, a 62 year old former electrician and insulation engineer with 100% asbestosis who had worked at the Marinite Factory in Springburn, and a male insulation engineer b.1917.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male heating engineer b.1940, 22 December 1998.

• sound recording (0h 30m 1s) and transcript

Tape 193. Consent form A06, formerly coded A92.

Ronald Johnston in conversation with Owen and Margaret Lilly (A19), 1 March 1999. An alternative date is given for the recording, 1 February 1999.

• sound recording (0h 43m 14s) and transcript

Owen Lilly was an asbestos factory worker.

Tape 202. Consent form A19, not previously coded.

Arthur McIvor in conversation with a worker (*B13), 6 February 2000.

• sound recording (0h 21m 58s) and transcript

Tape 203, side b. No code was found for this interview; the ID "*B13" has been randomly assigned by the Archives Service.

Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston in conversation with a couple (*B26), 6 February 2000.

• sound recording (0h 37m 43s) and transcript

Tape 204. No code was found for this interview; the ID "*B26" has been randomly assigned by the Archives Service.

Conversation between R Johnston and a male asbestos sprayer b.1948, 11 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A10, formerly coded A31.

The participant had worked with asbestos 22 years earlier, when he laboured to laggers and to sprayers.

Conversation between R Johnston and a 56 year-old retired insulation engineer, 15 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A16, formerly coded A29.

The participant had worked with asbestos since he left school and was suffering from bilateral pleural thickening.

Conversation between R Johnston and a 65 year-old electrician, 15 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A13, formerly coded A89.

The participant had worked as foreman in large number of jobs in Clydeside.

Conversation between R Johnston and a 69 year-old retired insurance agent, 17 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A15, formerly coded A40.

The participant had worked as an engineer in the Ailsa shipyard in Troon in the late 40s and early 50s, where he was heavily exposed to asbestos.

Conversation between R Johnston and the 66 year-old widow of an electrical engineer who had recently died of mesothelioma, 22 March 1999.

• transcript

Consent form A20, formerly coded B1.

The participant's husband was exposed to asbestos in the 1950s while working on a demolition contract. Interview also contains interesting testimony regarding her overseas’ work experience.