Documents in our library describe HK Porter (H. K. Porter) as “brake linings”.1 They give it as made 1948–1981.1
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What each document says
Every statement about HK Porter (H. K. Porter) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981
Kind of product
We list HK Porter (H. K. Porter) with brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (76)
Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Gmc Parts (General Motors) · Gralam (Champion Friction) · Grey Rock (U.S. Asbestos) · Grey Rock Eagle (U.S. Asbestos) · Grizzly (Maremont) · Grizzly (Nuturn) · Halo (Scandinavia Belting) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) · Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) · Hydro (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Ideal (Emsco Asbestos) · Inlite (General Motors) · Itt Aimco (ITT Aimco) · Jurid (Kirchbach'Sche Werke Kirchbach & Co.) · and 56 more: all brakes and friction materials
See also
- H. K. Porter: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- H. K. Porter on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 21.
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