Documents in our library describe Standco Brake Blocks (Standco Industries) as “woven and molded brake blocks that are tailor-made for oil-well service”.1 They give it as sold from 1929.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Standco Brake Blocks (Standco Industries) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1971, August 1971
Label: Standco Brake Blocks, one-half set (Standco Industries Inc.), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: January, 1929”, said by Standard Brake Lining Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Kind of product
We list Standco Brake Blocks (Standco Industries) 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 Standco Industries (1)
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (75)
Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Red Demon (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Safetybestos (Bondall) · Servbestos (Thermoid Rubber) · Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) · Silent Grip (Anchor Packing) · Standco (C. W. Hanslip) · Starbestos (Knerr & Bortz) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Tiger Brake Shoes (Abex) · Top-Dog (Cape Asbestos) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · VeeLock (U.S. Asbestos) · Velvetouch (S. K. Wellman) · Wagner Lockheed (Wagner) · and 55 more: all brakes and friction materials
References
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