James E. Gale of B. D. Pierce, Jr. to M. F. Judd on American Surety Dust Counts (1936)

A one-page letter of May 5, 1936, from James E. Gale, secretary of B. D. Pierce, Jr., Inc., a Bridgeport insurance agency, to Morton F. Judd of Raybestos-Manhattan, asking permission for engineers of the American Surety Company to make a dust count "in the weaving room and other places" at the Bridgeport and Stratford plants the next week. The insurer owned "a dust counting camera which has been developed by Messrs. Ficklund and Ott," and Mr. Ott would come along. Filed with it is a two-page "Location of Dust Checks," dated May 8, 1936, listing 15 sampling points at Bridgeport (March 24, 1936) and 24 at Stratford (March 24-25, 1936), by loom and machine number.

What it shows

By 1936 an insurance company was asking to measure dust in Raybestos-Manhattan's plants with its own equipment. The list of dust check locations matches the sampling points of the March 1936 survey of the two plants, perhaps sent so the insurer's engineers could sample at the same places.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Engineers of American Surety Company would like permission to take dust counts at the Bridgeport and Stratford plants. Engineers will use dust counting camera developed by Ficklund and Ott. Ott will be present when counts are taken.

Related documents

• Dust Survey of the Raybestos Division's Bridgeport and Stratford Plants (1936)

About this copy

This is document 02845 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.