1940 PHILIP CAREY CareyStone ASBESTOS-Cement Sheathing Roofing Siding Catalog - $100 - (Kingston, WA)
MAJOR MANUFACTURERS USE OF ASBESTOS DOCUMENTED HERE! Hard to find, out of print 12 page, 8-1/2 x 11 inch catalog / brochure from 1940 for The Philip Carey Mfg. Company, Lockland,Cincinnati Ohio "CAREYSTONE Corrugated ASBESTOS-Cement Roofing and Siding and FLAT ASBESTOS - CEMENT Products." Catalog gives product index, general information, details, diagrams, technical data & schematics given for assembly & usage. Photos of installations and illustrations. First page info says CAREYSTONE was made using ASBESTOS & Portland cement "in the special Carey manufacturing process, tough fibers of asbestos are crisscrossed, interwoven, merged together and embedded in a carefully selected grade of portland cement." "Made solely from these two durable and fireproof minerals, CAREYSTONE Corrugated ASBESTOS-Cement Roofing and Siding is a permanent material..." They say this products "has been used extensively for roofing and siding in chemical plants..." "The railroads are large users of this modern building product, as they have found that its use reduces overhead and maintenance to a minimum. Unlike most metals it is unaffected by salt air and its use is thus becoming more popular with industries located on the seaboard." Lists users "thousands of factories, railroad buildings, aeroplane hangars, warehouses, power plants, foundries, chemical plants--in fact, every conceivable type of industrial building." ASBESTOS Cement recommended for use. ASBESTOS - Cement Sheathing was also recommended for a unique purpose -- lining the walls of refrigerators since it was 'vermin & rat proof' and easily cleanable. Lists other uses like: closets, bath houses, gyms, locker rooms, cabinets, elevator shafts, clothes chutes, garbage chutes, refrigerator rooms, smoke houses, meat storage rooms, home workshops, motion picture booths, dyeing rooms, garages, chicken brooders & houses, bakery ovens, bleaching rooms, dry kilns, stairways, laboratory shelves, fume ducts, railroad smoke jacks, smoke sc…
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