Charles T. Young to Sumner Simpson on Having No Spare Dust Collector at Passaic (1941)

A one-page letter of March 31, 1941, from Charles T. Young of the Manhattan Rubber Mfg. Division of Raybestos-Manhattan at Passaic, New Jersey, to Sumner Simpson, headed "Dust Collecting Apparatus." Young wrote that "we had no unused machine for this purpose on hand," and that Passaic itself might need "to increase one of our collectors where it seemed inadequate for the work in hand," so he could not help.

What it shows

Simpson had evidently asked whether the Passaic plant could spare a dust collector for another division. The answer shows that dust collecting equipment was in short supply within Raybestos-Manhattan in 1941, and that Passaic thought one of its own collectors was not big enough for its work.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Informs that Passaic plant doesn't have any extra dust collecting apparatus that could be loaned to other divisions.

About this copy

This is document 04648 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.