Documents in our library describe Salamander (Johns-Manville) as “salamander fire- and damp-proof asbestos paper both sides (keystone hair insulator brand)”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Salamander (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
H. W. Johns-Manville Co.: Building Materials, Catalogue No. 102 (1909)
- Description: “SALAMANDER Fire- and Damp-Proof Asbestos Paper both sides (Keystone Hair Insulator brand)”, p. 121
Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (1923)
- Ingredient: “three 1/4" layers of chemically treated cattle hair fastened between layers of building and asbestos papers, with an outside layer of muslin”, p. 942
- Use: “steel passenger car insulation: applied to the inside of the outside steel plates and the outside of the inside steel finish”, p. 942
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “insulation of locomotive cab roofs, sides, & roofs of passenger cars”, p. 1083
Kind of product
We list Salamander (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Paperbestos · Quinorgo · Quinorogo 6000 · Quinorogoboard · Quinterra · Quintex (I, II, ST) · Roofinsul · Special Coated Asbestos Base Felt · Spintex · Standard Flex M-k · Standard Flexible Min-k blankets · Super Fire Felt · Telgard · Thermo Felt · Thermoflex · and 69 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Resin Saturating (Celotex) · Resistal (Keasbey & Mattison) · Roll Felt (Nicolet) · Rollboard (GAF) · Roofing Felt (Celotex) · Ru-ber-oid Watson (Ruberoid) · Sal-Mo (Sall Mountain) · Scapa-Hall (Morey Paper & Mill Supply) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Shake Shield (Philip Carey) · Siluminite (Turners Asbestos Cement) · So Good That Only The Dealers Sell It (Lehon) · Sofilia (Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) · Sound Barrier (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Spauldite (Spaulding Fibre) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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
- H. W. Johns-Manville Co.: Building Materials, Catalogue No. 102 (January 1, 1909), p. 12.
- Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (January 1, 1923), p. 94.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 108. Not yet published in our library.
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