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Correspondence between Dalton and Steve Tombs, sociologist, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, on industrial accidents in the chemical industry. Includes two academic papers, 1990 and 1991, written by Tombs.

Letter to Dalton at the Labour Research Department from Steve Coleman, Senior Orthopaedic Registrar, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia, about power saw hand injuries. Includes photographs of hand injuries.

Letter to Dalton from Stephen Hughes, MEP, on opinion of European Commission’s Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment with regard to banning chrysotile.

Correspondence and papers on Stanley Trenholm, policeman and asbestosis sufferer. Trenholm died as the result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his employment. Includes notes of evidence at coroner’s inquest.

Email from Laurie Kazan-Allen on ban of asbestos in Spain.

Correspondence between Dalton and Pauline Bonney, Southeast Asbestos Awareness and Support. Includes account of Pauline Bonney’s husband, John Bonney, who died of mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in South Africa, including compensation claims against Cape plc by South African workers. Includes:

• photographs of demonstration
• press cuttings
• Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) leaflets and newsletters

Includes:

• letters from Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID, to Dalton
• correspondence on Nancy Tait’s husband, who died of mesothelioma
• SPAID/OEDA publications

Papers on removal of social security benefits from asbestos-related disease sufferers awarded compensation. Includes:

• report by Clydeside Action on Asbestos, 1994
• fourth report of House of Commons Social Security Committee on compensation recovery, 1995

Academic papers, press releases and fact sheets on silicosis.

Includes press cuttings about asbestos.

Report by Tony Bingham, elastomers chemist, on Scandura [an asbestos product].