Documents in our library describe Permatone (Johns-Manville) as “johns-manville permatone asbestos siding shingles which come in lovely colors”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Permatone (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Western Asbestos Co.: Architectural Manual (1946)
- Description: “Johns-Manville Permatone Asbestos Siding Shingles which come in lovely colors”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Western Asbestos Co., p. 2281
The Home Idea Book: A Generation of Ideas for Better Living (c. 1950)
- Description: “Johns-Manville Asbestos Siding Shingles also come in a number of beautiful Permatone colors”, p. 372
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos shingles”, p. 993
Kind of product
We list Permatone (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. 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 Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Metal Veneered Marinite · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 500 · Molten Metal Marinite · No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet · No. 60 Service Sheet · Pallite · Permatone S · Permatone “S” Flexboard · Quinterra 71 · Reeferite · Rentone · Ridge Roll · Ring-Tite · Rock Shake · and 99 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Novabestos Electricl (Irvington) · Nu Side (Nu Side) · Nu-Grain (Keasbey & Mattison) · Panelbestos (GAF) · Panelstone (GAF) · Pare-Soleil (Atlas Asbestos) · Permaboard (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Plasti-Clad (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Plasticrylic (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Plia-F-Lex (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Pliaboard (National Gypsum) · Pps (National Gypsum) · Prenite Packing (B.F. Goodrich) · Promenade Tile (Keasbey & Mattison) · Pyro-bestos (U.S. Gypsum) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Johns-Manville on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Western Asbestos Co.: Architectural Manual (January 1, 1946), p. 228.
- The Home Idea Book: A Generation of Ideas for Better Living (January 1, 1950), p. 37.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 99. Not yet published in our library.
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