Conwed Corporation Purchase Order 5882 to Union Carbide for a 60-Ton Car of High Purity Asbestos Pellets, with Telegram and Shipping Papers (1968)

Conwed Corporation purchase order dated May 7, 1968 to Union Carbide's Chemical & Plastics Division in Chicago for one 60-ton car of high purity asbestos pellets in bags at $100.00 per ton, shipped from King City, California. It is followed by a May 14, 1968 Conwed telegram asking for the wire car number and by shipping papers, including a Southern Pacific bill of lading dated May 11 for a car consigned to Conwed at Cloquet, Minnesota.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Conwed Corporation purchase order 5882 dated May 7, 1968 to Union Carbide for one 60-ton car of high purity asbestos pellets in bags, with handwritten car number and freight notations
• Page 2: Western Union telegram of May 14, 1968 from Conwed (W E Walsh) to Bert Barton at Union Carbide, re PO 5882 wire car number, urgent
• Page 3: Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics shipping order form for a shipment from King City to Cloquet, Minnesota (poor OCR)
• Page 4: Nearly illegible page with no usable text
• Page 5: Partial carrier form with shipment-tender and delivery-receipt notice (poor OCR)
• Page 6: Southern Pacific bill of lading, King City (Welby) to Cloquet, Minnesota, dated May 11, consigned to Conwed Corp, order 5882, 121,200 lbs, freight collect
• Page 7: Union Carbide order acknowledgment form, bill to Conwed Corp (largely illegible OCR)

People and organizations

From Conwed Corporation (purchaser; issuer of Purchase Order 5882); W E Walsh (Conwed Corporation, signer of the telegram) to Bert K. Barton (Union Carbide Corporation, Chemical & Plastics Div., Chicago).

• W. E. Walsh (author)
• Bert K. Barton (recipient)
• Conwed Corporation (named)
• Southern Pacific (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)
• Western Union (named)
• Wood Conversion Company (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Minnesota Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-5231 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 7 pages. Production numbers 074987 to 074988.