Manheim, Pennsylvania, was the home of the United States Asbestos Company's textile plant, which by 1953 Raybestos-Manhattan was running as its U. S. Asbestos-Grey-Rock Division.1,3 In 1924, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, told how in 1906 Chester L. Hill, who had worked at the Keasbey & Mattison Company's asbestos textile plant, "headed a small group of men and organized the United States Asbestos Company," and how "A small plant was secured at Manheim, Penna., about ten miles northwest of the city of Lancaster."1 The same article traced the company's course "from the manufacture of commercial asbestos yarns and fine tapes on a small scale to the production in enormous quantities of every kind of asbestos textile known to man."1
In 1927 the journal named "O. C. Cilley, for some years Plant Manager of the Company," who had since become general manager of a company at Waterford, N. Y.5 On January 4th and 5th, 1935, the United States Asbestos Division "held a meeting at its plant at Manheim, Penna., for branch managers and territorial representatives."4 In 1953, Raybestos-Manhattan announced in Asbestos that Osborn H. Cilley was general manager of the "U. S. Asbestos-Grey-Rock Division at Manheim, Pa.," and said he "joined the Manheim organization in 1920 as Plant Superintendent."3
In December 1969, Raybestos-Manhattan reported in Asbestos that Lewis C. Williams, "Textile Superintendent at Manheim since 1956," had been named plant superintendent, in an item about "the Pennsylvania division's requirements for asbestos textiles and friction materials."2
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Asbestos Magazine, 1924, June 1924
- Opened: “organized the United States Asbestos Company. A small plant was secured at Manheim, Penna.” (United States Asbestos Company), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 161
- Products made: “commercial asbestos yarns and fine tapes ... every kind of asbestos textile” (United States Asbestos Company), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 161
Asbestos Magazine, 1969, December 1969
- Asbestos products made: “Lewis C. Williams, Textile Superintendent at Manheim since 1956; the Pennsylvania division's requirements for asbestos textiles and friction materials” (Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), said by Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 472
Asbestos Magazine, 1953, February 1953
- Operated: “joined the Manheim organization in 1920 as Plant Superintendent” (Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), said by Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 523
Asbestos Magazine, 1935, February 1935
- Operated: “held a meeting at its plant at Manheim, Penna.” (United States Asbestos Division), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 404
Asbestos Magazine, 1927, January 1927
- Operated: “O. C. Cilley, for some years Plant Manager of the Company” (United States Asbestos Company), said by Asbestos (magazine), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 225
Other names
Documents call this plant “A small plant was secured at Manheim, Penna.”, “its plant at Manheim, Penna.”, “Manheim Plant”, “U. S. Asbestos-Grey-Rock Division at Manheim, Pa.”, “Asbestos Textile Division, Manheim, Pa.”, “R/M's Manheim, Pennsylvania, division”, “Manheim”.
See also
- United States Asbestos Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Asbestos exposure sites in Pennsylvania
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1924, June 1924 (June 1, 1924), p. 16.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1969, December 1969 (December 1, 1969), p. 47.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953, February 1953 (February 1, 1953), p. 52.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1935, February 1935 (February 1, 1935), p. 40.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1927, January 1927 (January 1, 1927), p. 22.
Mentioned on this site
- Asbestos History
- Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee on Rebutting the Biological Effects of Asbestos Conference (1964)
- Asbestos Timeline
- Asbestos Timeline
- Asbestos Timeline
- Asbestos Timeline
- B. W. Luttenberger to Dr. Spillman on Raybestos-Manhattan's Medical Problems (1956)
- B. W. Luttenberger to Frederick W. Sands of U.S. Rubber on Manheim's Dust Control and Asbestosis Cases (1957)
- Dr. Philip E. Enterline to J. C. Gilson and John H. Marsh on a Mortality Study at Raybestos-Manhattan's Stratford Plant (1975)
- E. H. Jeffords to Sumner Simpson on Manheim's Request for Charleston's Dust Control Designs (1935)
- George R. Weber to E. H. Jeffords on Sending Luttenberger to Study Charleston's Dust Control (1937)
- George R. Weber to Sumner Simpson on Dust Improvements at Manheim (1935)
- I. H. Weaver to J. H. Marsh on Testing Asbestos Cloth for Release of Airborne Fibers (1973)
- I. H. Weaver to J. H. Marsh on the NIOSH Mortality Study of Raybestos-Manhattan Workers (1977)
- J. F. D. Rohrbach to W. H. Dunn Forwarding the Saranac Pledge Letters and Gardner's Report (1941)
- J. H. Marsh to Alec Cross on a Dust Control Film and the Revised Federal Asbestos Standard (1974)
- John H. Marsh to Dr. J. C. Gilson on Mesothelioma at the Manheim Plant (1974)
- John H. Marsh to Guy Gabrielson on the History of Asbestos Exposure Limits (1977)
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, A Study of Dust Conditions in Raybestos-Manhattan's Manheim Plant (1930)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson Acknowledging the Aluminum Dust Article (1944)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson Asking for the 1939 Manheim Dust Survey (1939)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson Enclosing the Industrial Hygiene Foundation's Plan for a Manheim Dust Study (1943)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson on an Industrial Hygiene Foundation Check of the Manheim Dust System (1944)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson on Industrial Hygiene Foundation Dust Counts at Manheim (1944)
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson on Manheim Dust Counts for 1935, 1938 and 1939 (1939)
- O. H. Cilley to W. C. Hemeon on Dust Control and a Lower Dust Limit (1954)
- Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Asbestosis, Special Bulletin No. 42 (1935)
- Ralph M. Barley, Herbert Ball and Dr. Kenneth Smith on Raybestos-Manhattan's Asbestosis and Lung Cancer Claims (1958)
- S. R. Zimmerman to Dr. Lewis J. Cralley Limiting Raybestos-Manhattan's Part in the Public Health Service Asbestos Study (1963)
- S. R. Zimmerman to Dr. Lewis J. Cralley on Delaying a Reply About the Public Health Service Asbestos Study (1963)
- S. R. Zimmerman to Jeremiah R. Lynch Acknowledging the Manheim Air Sampling Results (1965)
- S. R. Zimmerman to R. L. Moore Sending the Public Health Service's Manheim Dust Results (1965)
- Sumner Simpson to A. F. Heinsohn Sending the Manheim Dust Count Comparison (1939)
- Sumner Simpson to A. S. Rossiter Inviting Asbestos Magazine to See Raybestos-Manhattan's Dust Control (1938)
- Sumner Simpson to C. J. Stover on the Charlotte Asbestosis Cases and the Saranac Experiments (1936)
- Sumner Simpson to George R. Weber on the X-Ray Machine in the Manheim Hospital (1943)
- Sumner Simpson to George R. Weber Sending the 1939 Manheim Recheck Survey (1939)
- Sumner Simpson to Leroy Gardner on Reviewing Raybestos-Manhattan's Manheim X-Ray Films (1944)
- Sumner Simpson to O. H. Cilley on a Later Metropolitan Life Dust Check (1944)
- Sumner Simpson to O. H. Cilley on Sending the Manheim Survey to Weber (1939)
- Sumner Simpson to O. H. Cilley Sending a Wall Street Journal Article on Aluminum Dust and Silicosis (1944)
- Sumner Simpson to W. J. McConnell Acknowledging the 1939 Manheim Recheck Survey (1939)
- The Johns-Manville Knowledge Chronology
- The Motley 1000
- The Sumner Simpson Papers
- United States Asbestos Company
- Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Enclosing Dr. Gardner's Report on Five Months of Asbestos Experiments (1937)
- W. C. L. Hemeon to O. H. Cilley on Dust Control at the Manheim Plant (1954)
- W. J. McConnell of Metropolitan Life to O. H. Cilley Asking for New X-Rays of Manheim Workers (1938)
- W. J. McConnell of Metropolitan Life to Sumner Simpson Enclosing the Manheim Dust Survey (1935)
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