Documents in our library describe Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) as “hycoe brake lining, a frictioned asbestos cloth, folded to size and stitched”.1 They give it as sold from 1924.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1972, March 1972
- Use: “original equipment brake lining”, said by John A. Bettes, Jr., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 61
- Sold from: “HYCOE brake lining was introduced to the trade in 1924”, said by John A. Bettes, Jr., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 61
- Description: “HYCOE brake lining, a frictioned asbestos cloth, folded to size and stitched”, said by John A. Bettes, Jr., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 61
Kind of product
We list Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) with cloth, tape and other textiles and brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (301)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Guardian (H. K. Porter) · Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) · Heatgard (H. K. Porter) · Herco (John Herman) · Hi-Luster (H. K. Porter) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) · Industrial No. 200-14 (Industrial Glove) · Industrial No. 225-14 (Industrial Glove) · Inslgard (H. K. Porter) · Insulag (Quigley) · Insutape (Unarco) · Jaxcolite (Jackson, Gordon C.) · JB 1000A (Elliot Glove) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
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) · Grey Rock Eagle (U.S. Asbestos) · Grizzly (Maremont) · Grizzly (Nuturn) · Halo (Scandinavia Belting) · HK Porter (H. K. Porter) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) · Hydro (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Ideal (Emsco Asbestos) · Inlite (General Motors) · Itt Aimco (ITT Aimco) · Jurid (Kirchbach'Sche Werke Kirchbach & Co.) · Lined brake shoe sets (Wagner) · Low N Bestos (Wheeling Brake Block Manufacturing) · Lx (Multibestos) · and 56 more: all brakes and friction materials
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1972, March 1972 (March 1, 1972), p. 6.
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