Documents in our library describe Hydro (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “brake and clutch linings containing asbestos fibre”.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Hydro (Raybestos-Manhattan) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1930, November 1930
- Description: “brake and clutch linings containing asbestos fibre”, said by Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 591
Kind of product
We list Hydro (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)
Grey-Rock · 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) · 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) · 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) · MoPar Cyclebond (Chrysler) · 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
- Asbestos Magazine, 1930, November 1930 (November 1, 1930), p. 59.
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