Raybestos-Manhattan Sales and Price Records for Shipyards, the Navy and Other Customers (1948-1974)

A packet of 263 pages of Raybestos-Manhattan sales records, produced in litigation. It opens with document request forms signed by Charles Patrick of Blatt & Fales, Barnwell, South Carolina, and addressed to Clyde A. Szuch of Pitney, Hardin & Kipp, the company's lawyers, asking for copies from the company's "Sales Records" file (one is dated November 19, 1980). The pages that follow are customer price cards and letters from 1948 into the 1970s, showing asbestos cloth, tape, tubing, yarn and other products quoted to customers such as Abney Mills, Armstrong Cork, Babcock & Wilcox, New York Shipbuilding, the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn and the Charleston Naval Shipyard.

What it shows

Records like these were used at trial to show which manufacturers' asbestos products went to which shipyards, plants and contractors, and when. Many of the cards list asbestos cloth made to federal specifications for government buyers, and products such as "Underwriters Grade Asb. Cloth" and "Flame, Water & Oil Resistant Asbestos Tape."

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

Packet of R-M sales records which include customers' names, products purchased, price, and date. The dates range from 1948 to 1974. Some customers include the U.S. government and private shipyards.

About this copy

This is document 716 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002625 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002887.