R. B. Davis to Dr. Albert S. Gray Inviting Him to Tour the Stratford Plant (1939)

R. B. Davis, general manager of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan, wrote on December 15, 1939, to Dr. Albert S. Gray of the Connecticut Department of Health, recalling that Gray had been "interested in dust conditions of our plant from a health standpoint" when he met Simpson and M. F. Judd, the former general manager. Davis said Judd had died in July and he had taken his place, that the company had closed the Bridgeport plant and "made considerable improvements," and he invited Gray and his assistants to tour the consolidated Stratford factory. A postscript asked: "What is the multiple dust counts for the various types of dust?"

What it shows

The letter shows Raybestos-Manhattan's new general manager inviting the state's occupational disease office to inspect the Stratford plant after the Bridgeport work was moved there, and asking the state for its dust-count figures by type of dust. Dr. Gray accepted (his reply of December 20), and Davis then asked his staff to make improvements before the visit (his note of January 3, 1940).

In Johns-Manville's index

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

States that he recalls Dr. Grey is interested in dust conditions at Bridgeport plant from health standpoint. Informs that Bridgeport plant has been consolidated into Stratford plant. Invites Dr. Grey to come for tour of Stratford plant.

Related documents

• Dr. Albert S. Gray of the Connecticut Department of Health to R. B. Davis on Visiting the Stratford Plant (1939)
• R. B. Davis to W. E. Casey on Improvements Before Dr. Gray's Visit (1940)

About this copy

This is document 04208-04209 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.