E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on Progress of the North Charleston Dust Collecting System (1935)

A one-page letter of July 29, 1935, from E. H. Jeffords, general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division at North Charleston, South Carolina, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, on the plant's new dust collecting system. Jeffords sent copies of Edward A. Barrier's July 25 letter and his reply, and reported that burlap for the baffles had been ordered from the Armstrong Cork Co. and that rain had delayed piping the collectors to the dust house. The baffles would be installed on Saturdays and Sundays, "when the Mill is shut down," and the roof tunnel would wait until the company was sure "the burlap baffles will work successfully."

What it shows

Jeffords kept Raybestos-Manhattan's president informed of each step of the North Charleston dust collection work. He presented the tunnel partly as a question of cost: the old pipe lines were wearing out and would have to be replaced if the tunnel was not built.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Progress report on construction of new dust collecting system. Have been delayed on account of rain but have most pipelines completed and are ready to install burlap baffles. Work on the tunnel has been postponed until it is known if the burlap baffles will work. Encloses correspondence to and from E. Barrier (not attached).

Related documents

• Edward A. Barrier of Arkwright Mutual to E. H. Jeffords on the North Charleston Dust Tunnel Plans (1935)
• E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on the Dust Settling Chamber and Arkwright Correspondence (1935)

About this copy

This is document 02501 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.