Documents in our library describe Gold Bond (Asbestone) as “roofing shingles, siding shingles, corrugated sheets, flat sheets”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Gold Bond (Asbestone) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1953, April 1953
Asbestos Magazine, 1961, September 1961
- Description: “Gold Bond Asbestone Panels: asbestos-cement faced sandwich panels for interior or interior-exterior use”, said by National Gypsum Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 322
- Use: “curtain-wall applications, roof deck and window wall construction, and interior partitions”, said by National Gypsum Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 322
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “roofing, siding” (as of 1953), p. 813
Advertisement: Gold Bond ASBESTONE
- Description: “Gold Bond ASBESTONE brings new styling, new color to Asbestos-Cement Roofing and Siding”, p. 14
Kind of product
We list Gold Bond (Asbestone) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Asbestone (2)
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (381)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Follansbee Terne (Follansbee Steel) · Formboard (Philip Carey) · Frycor (Owens-Corning) · Fyrbestos (Keene/Beh) · Galbestos (H.H. Robertson) · Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) · Glatex (U.S. Gypsum) · Gothic (Eternit, Inc.) · Gothic (maker not given) · Gothic (Ruberoid) · Grain-Tex (maker not given) · Granostruct (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Granowall (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Hansonite (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Hansonite (Keene/Beh) · and 361 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953, April 1953 (April 1, 1953), p. 13.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1961, September 1961 (September 1, 1961), p. 32.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 81. Not yet published in our library.
- Advertisement: Gold Bond ASBESTONE, p. 1.
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