George E. Pope to M. F. Judd on Reducing Dust at the Stratford Plant (1934)

A one-page inter-office memo of October 6, 1934, from George E. Pope to M. F. Judd of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan. Pope listed the three "high points shown up by Dr. Cook's dust count in Stratford": the external brake grinder at 22.7 million particles per cubic foot, the operating pulverizer at 10.3 million and the operating opener at 16.7 million. "Mr. Casey informs me that we have made changes at these three places which reduces the dust conditions materially," he wrote.

What it shows

The memo shows Raybestos-Manhattan's managers following up on a 1934 dust count at the Stratford, Connecticut, brake lining plant and making changes at the three dustiest operations. It gives no new counts after the changes, only Casey's report that conditions had improved.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Reports changes made at Stratford plant which reduced the dust levels in those work areas considered high by the Connecticut Department of Health in their 1934 dust study. Areas where dust counts were reduced: external brake grinder; operating pulverizer; and operating opener.

About this copy

This is document 02044 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.