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Siluminite (Turners Asbestos Cement)

Documents in our library describe Siluminite (Turners Asbestos Cement) as “"siluminite" electrical insulation products”.1 They give it as sold from 1965.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Siluminite (Turners Asbestos Cement) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1966, February 1966

  • Sold from: “throughout 1965 ... higher sales were again recorded”, said by Turner & Newall Limited, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 221
  • Description: “"Siluminite" electrical insulation products” (as of 1965), said by Turner & Newall Limited, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 221

Asbestos Magazine, 1967, February 1967

  • Description: “SILUMINITE asbestos paper tubes and sections”, said by Turners Asbestos Cement Company Limited, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 182
  • Use: “Rewirable fuse handles, electric heaters and resistance formers”, said by Turners Asbestos Cement Company Limited, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 182
  • Description: “asbestos paper, tubes, & sections” (as of 1967), p. 1093

Kind of product

We list Siluminite (Turners Asbestos Cement) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Electricians and Electrical Workers.

Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (299)

Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Ru-ber-oid Watson (Ruberoid) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Sal-Mo (Sall Mountain) · Salamander (Johns-Manville) · Scapa-Hall (Morey Paper & Mill Supply) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Shake Shield (Philip Carey) · So Good That Only The Dealers Sell It (Lehon) · Sofilia (Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) · Sound Barrier (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Spauldite (Spaulding Fibre) · Spec Ira-440-C (Celotex) · Spec Ira-440-SW (Celotex) · Spec Ira-440-W (Celotex) · Spec Ira-441-SW (Celotex) · and 279 more: all paper, felt and millboard

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1966, February 1966 (February 1, 1966), p. 22.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1967, February 1967 (February 1, 1967), p. 18.
  3. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 109. Not yet published in our library.

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