Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on Otto Binder's Availability After the Metropolitan Survey (1936)

A one-page letter of March 11, 1936, from Vandiver Brown, general attorney of Johns-Manville, to M. F. Judd of Raybestos-Manhattan at Bridgeport. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company had finished its dust survey of J-M's Pacific Coast plants, and "the Metropolitan survey of our two companies is now practically completed," apart from sample analysis and the formal reports. Otto Binder was therefore free to take dust samples at Raybestos-Manhattan plants to check "the efficiency of equipment installed since the date of the earlier reports," and Brown asked Judd to see him about "our cooperative efforts" and Binder. A handwritten note reads "Bport Monday."

What it shows

With Metropolitan Life's survey of both companies' plants ending, Johns-Manville and Raybestos-Manhattan had to decide what to do with the dust counter they had shared since 1934. A resurvey of the Bridgeport and Stratford plants followed on March 24 to 26. The thread continues in Brown's letters of May 14 and May 27, and all of them appear in the chronology's letters on hiring Otto Binder.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Informs that Metropolitan Life has completed Dust Surveys of J M's pacific coast plants. Survey of J-M and RM is almost completed. Informs that O. Binder is now available to perform testing at RM plants to determine efficiency of equipment installed since earlier reports. Suggests meeting to discuss continued cooperative efforts and Binder's future.

Related documents

• W. H. Dunn to M. F. Judd on Raybestos-Manhattan's Costs for Otto Binder, 1934 and 1935 (1936)
• Dust Survey of the Raybestos Division's Bridgeport and Stratford Plants (1936)
• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on Metropolitan Life Releasing Otto Binder (1936)
• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd Confirming Johns-Manville's Hiring of Otto Binder (1936)
• Johns-Manville and Raybestos-Manhattan Letters on Hiring Dust Counter Otto Binder (1936)

About this copy

This is document 02844 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.