H. D. LaMont of Asbestos Manufacturing to M. F. Judd Returning the Signed Saranac Agreement (1936)

A one-page letter of December 17, 1936, from H. D. LaMont, general manager of the Asbestos Manufacturing Company of Huntington, Indiana, to M. F. Judd, secretary of Raybestos-Manhattan, returning the Memorandum of Agreement of November 20 that he had signed, "making our company a party to the agreement to conduct the experiments on asbestos dust." LaMont recalled that he had suggested a lower fee for small producers, based on the number of carding machines ("cards") each firm ran, but "apparently this was not acceptable to the rest of the group." He could suggest no other companies, except that "the Canadian Asbestos Companies should be willing to take a part in this project. This might help swell the total to the suggested ten."

What it shows

The letter shows a smaller manufacturer joining the Saranac Laboratory experiments on the equal-shares terms it had argued against in its letter of November 12, and the sponsors still looking for more companies to share the cost.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

Transmittal letter for signed Memorandum of Agreement regarding Saranac study. Suggests Canadian asbestos companies might be willing to participate in venture.

Related documents

• H. D. LaMont of Asbestos Manufacturing to Sumner Simpson Proposing Shares by Size of Company (1936)
• Sumner Simpson to H. D. LaMont of Asbestos Manufacturing on Funding Gardner's Asbestos Research (1936)
• Asbestos Companies' Memorandum of Agreement to Underwrite Gardner's Dust Experiments (1936)
• Sumner Simpson to Vandiver Brown Listing the Companies That Have Signed the Saranac Agreement (1936)

About this copy

This is document 03090 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.