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Organisatorial correspondence and papers.

Display board on SPAID's 'Tackle a tiddler' competition, 1993. Labelled 'SPAID'.

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.

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.

Copy of a booklet from the Canadian Asbestos Information Centre's 'Technical facts' series.

Copy of a report published by the Commission des accidents du travail du Québec, Montréal.

Poster visualising the organisation's areas of enduring interest: fellowship, legislation, fair compensation, protection for workers, an asbestos-free environment, fund raising.

The poster's title line is 'Can we help you?'.

Table of cases 1-646, in rough chronological order (with significant exceptions).

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

Board showing mainly fibres under the ?electron microscope, from crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite and chrysotile asbestos to glass micro-fibre, aluminium silicate, ceramic fibre, rock wool, glass wool, slag wool, carbon fibre and human hair.

Poster of news coverage in response to the proposal to build a private hospital on derelict industrial land on the north bank of the River Clyde between Clydebank and Dalmuir.

The SPAID caption reads: 'Old asbestos waste dumps are a hazard, men wore respirators and protective overalls when clearing Clydebank site where children have played. Thousands of tons of asbestos waste were dumped there during the thirty three years that Turner and Newalls factory operated.'

The hospital complex, a project of Health Care International, opened in June 1994 and incorporated a four star hotel so that family could travel with patients. Reportedly it cost £ 7m to decontaminate the site, which had previously been used by Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

Display board visualising the presence of asbestos in common building materials, and asbestos substitutes.

Photocopy of letter to SPAID from Cleveland Constabulary, 1983, re asbestos free brake linings and pads. Mounted and captioned 'Asbestos free brakes'.

Recording from the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', Collegium Ramazzini, New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Papers and correspondence with White Lung Association (WLA), 1984-1991 and 1994-2000. From 1996 Mrs Barbara Zeluck is the main correspondent. Includes

• WLA asbestos update, May 1995 to September 1998 (incomplete set)
• opinion of Judge Becker, in Georgine v. Amchem Prod Inc, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (5 October 1996)
• WLA leaflet [1995] 'Differences between British and US compensation systems'
  Also research papers, among them:
• H Vinke and T Wilthagen [1994] 'The non-mobilization of law: asbestos victims in the Netherlands'
• L C Oliver et al. (1991) 'Asbestos-related disease in public school custodians'
• Paul W MacAvoy (January 1982) ‘Working paper series C: the economic consequences of asbestos-related disease’

Barbara Zeluck (née Adler, 1923-2010) was an American socialist, occupational health and safety campaigner, and civil rights activist.

Papers and correspondence, chiefly with David Gee, re asbestos-induced diseases in shipyard workers (1982), reforms of the industrial injuries scheme 1982, World in Action documentary on mining practices in South Africa (‘Dust to dust’, 1981), an extended exchange re the GMWU questionnaire on production, employment and employee protection in asbestos manufacturing plants (including various drafts, 1979-1980), etc. Includes

• minutes of a meeting between Nancy Tait, David Gee, Tess Gill and Jane Welsh 23 November 1983
• summary of contribution from David Gee to inaugural meeting of SPAID, 10 March 1979 (incomplete)

David Gee was national Health & Safety officer for the GMB Union.