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• Reports and newsletters of organisations campaigning against Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd, a worldwide mining company with interests in metals, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering, construction and the exploitation of oil, gas and uranium.
• Report into operation of Rio Tinto plc’s Capper Pass smelting plant, Hull, written by David Russell, Senior Regional Solicitor to the Transport and General Workers Union.
• Copy of chapter on Rio Tinto Zinc's Bristol smelting plant from ' River of Tears: the Rise of Rio Tinto Zinc Mining Company' by Richard West, 1972.

Includes:

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

Includes court papers.

Letters to Dalton from Bill Lawrence, Tyneside Occupational Health Project. Includes:

• papers on state benefits for asbestos disease, 2000, 2002
• letter from Lawrence to Stephen Byres, MP, on liquidation of Iron Trades Employers Association, January 2001
• correspondence and papers on new drug treatments for mesothelioma, 2002
• Trade Union Studies Information Unit Health & Safety News, 2002

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.

Concerns attempts to end employers’ liability insurance system in UK.

Annotated by Dalton.

Correspondence and papers on explosion at Nypro UK Ltd chemical plant at Flixborough in 1974. Includes:

• report of Court of Inquiry into the Flixborough Disaster
• press releases
• text of lecture at Imperial College, London by K. Gugan on Flixborough explosion and inquiry

Minutes and notes of meetings of Asbestos Sub-committee of All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health.

Correspondence and papers on ban of asbestos in France. Includes:

• reports by the Asbestos Institute
• letters from Patrick Herman, co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network
• press cuttings