H. D. LaMont of Asbestos Manufacturing to Sumner Simpson Proposing Shares by Size of Company (1936)

A one-page letter of November 12, 1936, from H. D. LaMont, general manager of Asbestos Manufacturing Company of Huntington, Indiana, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, answering Simpson's letter of November 10 about "the proposed laboratory study of effects of asbestos dust." LaMont called the proposal "very practical" but could not come East for the meeting. Since equal shares might be hard to sell to smaller companies, he suggested a fixed fee of "$300 to $500 per company," with the balance shared by the number of carding machines each company ran, which might bring in Union Asbestos & Rubber Company of Cicero, Illinois, and perhaps Gatke. "At any rate, we are definitely interested in this program."

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Expresses interest in industry sponsored study of asbestosis by Dr. Gardner. Regrets that he will be unable to attend 11/17/36 meeting. Proposes study be funded with a fixed fee schedule leaving the balance to be pro-rated based on the size of the companies. This plan might induce smaller companies to join in the sponsorship.

Related documents

• 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)

About this copy

This is document 03013 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.