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AN ASBESTOSIS sufferer is calling on his former colleagues to help him track down the insurers of a company he once worked for.

John Stuart Robson, known as Stuart, believes he contracted the industrial disease over 40 years ago when he worked for Engineering Installations Company Teesside.

He is now seeking compensation from the Middlesbrough-based company which, at the time, was owned by a Mr Beveridge.

Mr Robson, 67, worked for the company from 1958 to 1960, when he was 16 and living in Nunthorpe. He would like to hear from anyone who may have been involved with Engineering Installations Company during the 1960s.

He worked on the boilers at Whinney Bank Girls' School, which required the removal of the asbestos insulation around the boiler, exposing Stuart to asbestos fibres which are now known to be the cause of asbestosis.

Mr Robson, who now lives in Bristol, said: "The asbestos created a lot of dust and it was a very messy job. We then had to use asbestos rope and lead paint to put it all back together."

* Anyone with information is urged to contact Jeremy Brooke of Simpson Sissons and Brooke solicitors on 0114 241 3973 or Kim Atherton of Asbestos Diseases UK on 0115 927 5108.