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Union Asbestos & Rubber Co. / Union Asbestos & Rubber Company plant at McGregor, Texas

Union Asbestos & Rubber Co. came to McGregor, Texas, in 1949: in March of that year Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the company "has purchased a part of the former Bluebonnet ordnance plant at McGregor, Texas, from the War Assets administration."1 The journal said the purchase, "approximately 75,000 square feet of manufacturing space and 125 acres of land, will be used principally to make high temperature insulations"; that was the plan as reported, and the item does not say what the plant went on to make.1

In December 1950 Asbestos listed McGregor among UNARCO's plants, alongside Cicero, Earlville and Blue Island, Illinois; Paterson, N. J.; and Marshville, North Carolina.2 The plant's end came when the government took it over: in January 1955 the journal reported that Unarco had acquired a new Texas facility at Tyler "to replace the company's McGregor, Texas, plant, which was taken over by the government," and that the machinery used at McGregor was dismantled and shipped to Tyler.3

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Location

McGregor, Texas, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

What each document says

Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1949, March 1949

  • Products made: “principally to make high temperature insulations (planned)” (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.), p. 481
  • Owned or run by: “purchased a part of the former Bluebonnet ordnance plant at McGregor, Texas, from the War Assets administration” (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.), p. 481

Asbestos Magazine, 1950, December 1950

  • Operated: “UNARCO plant located at McGregor, Texas” (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company), p. 442

Asbestos Magazine, 1955, January 1955

  • Closed: “the company's McGregor, Texas, plant, which was taken over by the government” (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company), said by Union Asbestos & Rubber Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 463

Other names

Documents call this plant “part of the former Bluebonnet ordnance plant at McGregor, Texas”, “new plant at McGregor”, “the company's McGregor, Texas, plant”.

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1949, March 1949 (March 1, 1949), p. 48.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1950, December 1950 (December 1, 1950), p. 44.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1955, January 1955 (January 1, 1955), p. 46.

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