Documents in our library describe Gardwell (Safety Clothing & Equipment) as “line of safety clothing, which includes aprons, leggings, pants, coats, sleeves, welding jackets, hats, gloves, etc., made of asbestos, chrome leather, fireproofed duck, etc.”.1 They give it as sold from 1946.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Gardwell (Safety Clothing & Equipment) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1946, June 1946
- Sold from: “recently adopted the trade name "Gardwell"”, said by Safety Clothing & Equipment Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 451
- Description: “line of safety clothing, which includes aprons, leggings, pants, coats, sleeves, welding jackets, hats, gloves, etc., made of asbestos, chrome leather, fireproofed duck, etc.”, said by Safety Clothing & Equipment Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 451
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos gloves” (as of 1976), p. 802
Kind of product
We list Gardwell (Safety Clothing & Equipment) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Welders.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Safety Clothing & Equipment (3)
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (298)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flamesafe (Singer Safety Products) · Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) · Flourobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack (Devcon) · Fortex (TBA Industrial Products) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Gardian Line (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Gatortape (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Glas-Bes (Sun Chemical) · Glasbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Glassbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Goldbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Granostruct (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Green Shield (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 278 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1946, June 1946 (June 1, 1946), p. 45.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 80. Not yet published in our library.
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