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Letters to Dalton from Professor Paul Holt, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading on calcium silicate. Includes summary of study at Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, into toxicology of calcium silicate.

Correspondence between Dalton and Geoffrey Tweedale, Manchester Metropolitan University. Includes:

• correspondence, February 1999, about Tweedale’s book ‘Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard’ including copy of last two chapters of book annotated by Dalton. Also, explanation by Dalton of what triggered his own interest in asbestos.
• article by Geoffrey Tweedale on the Asbestos Research Council, 2000

Proofs for book on asbestos entitled ‘We Die as Best We Can’ by Jim Burns.

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.

Correspondence between Dalton and Alex Reid, Donisthorpe and Co Ltd, on asbestos and railway workers. Includes correspondence between Dalton and British Railways Board.

Communications to Dalton from Charles Wolfson, Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow, enclosing a conference paper and article by Wolfson on the Piper Alpha disaster.

Correspondence between Dalton and Morris Greenberg, physician, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include asbestos exposure and dockers. Also included are copies of Turner & Newall correspondence on TUC submission to Advisory Committee on Asbestos, 1977.

Correspondence between Jim Brophy, Executive Director, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers, and Dalton and other asbestos activists on asbestos in Canada and other countries.

Correspondence between Dalton and various contacts, mostly on asbestos. Includes email communications to health and safety listservs to which Dalton belonged.

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

Annotated by Dalton.

Includes copy of opening statements, 31 October 1995, in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc trial.

Includes:

• scientific papers
• press cuttings
• health and safety publications
• COSLA Asbestos Working Group on Asbestos report, June 2002
• correspondence and papers on death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School
• Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Asbestos Joint Working Party reports

Includes statement by Dalton as expert witness.

Correspondence and papers on Court of Appeal ruling preventing compensation to workers exposed to asbestos dust by more than one employer. Includes letter from Nancy Tait, Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (OEDA).