Documents in our library describe Autobestos (Keasbey & Mattison) as “brake lining”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Autobestos (Keasbey & Mattison) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
- Form: “BRAKE LINING”, p. 31
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “braking lining” (as of 1909), p. 602
Kind of product
We list Autobestos (Keasbey & Mattison) 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) · Abex (Abex) · Allbestos woven brake lining (Allbestos Corporation) · Amco (Asbestos Corp. of America) · American Brakeblok (American Brake Shoe) · Anchor Brake Shoes (Griffin Wheeler) · Asbesto-metallic (Johns-Manville) · Asbestographite (Gatke Corporation) · Bendix (Bendix) · Carlisle “Premium” Class GC (Carlisle) · Cobra (Johns-Manville) · Cobra Brake Shoe (Railroad Friction Products Corporation) · Delco (General Motors) · Don-Flex (Small & Parkes) · F-m-c (Fiber Manufacturing) · Factory Lined Brake Shoes (Delco Moraine) · and 56 more: all brakes and friction materials
See also
- Keasbey & Mattison: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Keasbey & Mattison on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 60. Not yet published in our library.
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