Documents in our library describe Cobra Brake Shoe (Railroad Friction Products Corporation) as “a revolutionary new patented composition brake shoe for railroad cars and locomotives and subway equipment”.1 They give it as sold from 1955.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Cobra Brake Shoe (Railroad Friction Products Corporation) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1955, January 1955
- Sold from: “To produce and market the Cobra Brake Shoe, Westinghouse Air Brake and Johns-Manville have formed the Railroad Friction Products Corporation”, said by Westinghouse Air Brake Company and Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 391
- Description: “a revolutionary new patented composition brake shoe for railroad cars and locomotives and subway equipment”, said by Westinghouse Air Brake Company and Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 391
Kind of product
We list Cobra Brake Shoe (Railroad Friction Products Corporation) with brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe it. 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) · Anchor Brake Shoes (Griffin Wheeler) · Asbesto-metallic (Johns-Manville) · Asbestographite (Gatke Corporation) · Autobestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Bendix (Bendix) · Carlisle “Premium” Class GC (Carlisle) · Cobra (Johns-Manville) · Delco (General Motors) · Don-Flex (Small & Parkes) · F-m-c (Fiber Manufacturing) · Factory Lined Brake Shoes (Delco Moraine) · Flexiformed (Bondall) · FS Custom Four Star (Johns-Manville) · GM 5470 (General Motors) · GM 5490 (General Motors) · and 56 more: all brakes and friction materials
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1955, January 1955 (January 1, 1955), p. 39.
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