Russell Manufacturing Company plant at Middletown, Connecticut

The Russell Manufacturing Company's plant stood at Middletown, Connecticut; in December 1925, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, described it as "over thirty buildings, with a combined floor space of over 750,000 square feet."¹ The same article said the company "now ranks among the leaders in the automotive field for asbestos brake linings and clutch facings," woven on looms of its own design, and that it also made "the asbestos thread."¹

In February 1929 the journal reported that Russell employed "about 1500 men and women at their Middletown plant."³ An item from the company, printed in Asbestos in June 1951, called Russell a "manufacturer of brake linings and clutch facings" and said its production was "at the highest rate since World War II."²

Location

What each document says

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

Other names

Documents call this plant “The present plant of the Russell Manufacturing Company at Middletown, Conn.”, “their Middletown plant”, “the company's main plant at Middletown”, “Middletown, Connecticut”.

See also

• Russell Manufacturing Company: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Connecticut

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1925, December 1925 (December 1, 1925), pp. 17–18.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1951, June 1951 (June 1, 1951), p. 50.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1929, February 1929 (February 1, 1929), p. 26.