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Aircraft Industry Book featuring many Catalogs!
1952 Edition

Included in this book, is the Johns-Manville Aviation Products catalog, which is 11 pages in length.  It features a lot of information about asbestos-containing products and has pictures of them being used in airplanes.

There is one paragraph about Style No. 920 gaskets which are described as containing asbestos. It says, "... Style No.920 gaskets are widely used on hot flanges and heater ducts in aircraft of the USAF and the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics."  [Paragraph is pictured above.]

Other products featured and described:

- Firewall Seals / Tadpole Tapes - Chart shows styles, construction and sizes.  All of the styles described (Inconel mesh, rubber, neoprene tubing) are listed as containing asbestos.

- Picture shows Johns-Manville Tadpole Tape installed on the Lockheed F-80 jet fighter.

- Picture show installation of Johns-Manville Tadpole Tape on a J33 turbojet engine

- High Temperature Resistant Neoprene Asbestos Sheets... With pictures of its installation on aircraft and chart describing construction.

- Asbestos Gaskets, Asbestos Blast Tubing, Asbestos Flexible Connectors (With pictures of them installed.)

- Asbestos Textiles... with pictures of the asbestos tape installed on aircraft. Pictures are courtesy of Lockheed Aircraft Corp & Delta Airlines

- Inconel Packings.. One style of which is described as containing asbestos.

- Metallic Gaskets with Asbestos Filler

This catalog also has a Products Directory section, which lists the companies that manufactured asbestos products (cloth, paper, packing, sheet, etc).
Some of the companies listed are:
Acme Mfg. & Gasket Co.
Anchor Rubber Co
Asbestos Textile Co, Inc
Atlas Asbestos Co
Auburn Mfg Co
Felt Products Mfg Co
Fitzgerald Mfg Co
Garlock Packing Co
Gatke Corp
Goodall Rubber Co
Greene, Tweed & Co
Johns-Manville
Keasbey & Mattison Co
Miller Gasket Mfg Co Inc
Minerals & Insulation Co
Mitchell Rand Insulation Co
M. L. Snyder & Son
A. T. Stevens Co
Philadelphia Asbestos Co
Raybestos-Manhattan Inc
Rogers Corp
Ruberoid Co
Stanhope Products Co
Union Asbestos & Rubber Co
United States Rubber Co
Vellumoid Co
Victor Mfg & Gasket Co

CONDITION:  Acceptable.  Foxing to book page edges and to some pages. Light corner crease to some pages.
Aeronautical Engineering Catalog
1952
$189