Documents in our library describe Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “grey-rock combines many lining types including woven and molded—into sets specially balanced for each make and model”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Advertisement: Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) (1958)
Asbestos Magazine, 1936, February 1936
- Description: “the entire Grey-Rock balanced Line of Automotive Products” (as of 1936), p. 202
O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson Asking for the 1939 Manheim Dust Survey (1939)
- Description: “GREY-ROCK BRAKE LININGS AND CLUTCH FACINGS” (as of 1939), p. 13
John H. Marsh on Small-Business Workers and Third-Party Suits (1975)
- Warning label: “Instruction sheets have been distributed to all Grey-Rock and Raybestos distributors of friction materials describing proper procedures” (as of 1975), p. 14
Asbestos Magazine, 1935, January 1935
- Description: “Grey-Rock Balanced Brakset ... For brake linings.”, p. 405
Asbestos Magazine, 1966, August 1966
- Description: “Grey-Rock's broad line of industrial friction materials”, said by Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 286
Kind of product
We list Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) 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.
Other brakes and friction materials by Raybestos-Manhattan (8)
Hydro · R-m · Red Demon · R/M R-2854-B · R/M R-3672-3 · R/M US 98 · Ray-Mold · Rayman
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (68)
Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Cobra (Johns-Manville) · GM 5490 (General Motors) · GM 8010 (General Motors) · GM 8011 (General Motors) · Gmc Parts (General Motors) · Gralam (Champion Friction) · Grey Rock (U.S. Asbestos) · 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) · Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) · Ideal (Emsco Asbestos) · and 48 more: all brakes and friction materials
See also
- Raybestos-Manhattan: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Raybestos-Manhattan on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Advertisement: Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) (September 1, 1958), p. 1.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1936, February 1936 (February 1, 1936), p. 20.
- O. H. Cilley to Sumner Simpson Asking for the 1939 Manheim Dust Survey (June 2, 1939), p. 1.
- John H. Marsh on Small-Business Workers and Third-Party Suits (May 5, 1975), p. 1.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1935, January 1935 (January 1, 1935), p. 40.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1966, August 1966 (August 1, 1966), p. 28.
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