J. J. Hayes Jr., History of Sales and Marketing, Manville Corporation, 1858 to 1981 (1982)

An 86-page typed internal history, "History, Sales and Marketing, Manville Corporation, 1858 - 1981," prepared by J. J. (Jack) Hayes Jr. of Corporate Marketing Services and dated by hand July 1982. It is a year-by-year chronicle in short notes, from H. W. Johns's roofing business in New York in 1858 and his first asbestos patent and advertisements in 1868, through the merger with the Manville Covering Company, to the plants, products, acquisitions, executives and sales incentive payments of the 1950s to 1981. Hayes notes that sales records for 1924 to 1927 had been lost, leaving "a deep gap in J-M history."

What it shows

The history is a useful reference for when Johns-Manville made what, and where. It records, for example, the 1874 Johns pipe covering "lined with asbestos paper," the 1881 start of work on the Quebec deposit that became J-M's Jeffrey mine, the 1928 line of industrial insulations (asbestos paper, Asbesto-Sponge Felted, magnesia), the 1951 start of lightweight magnesia and lime-silica insulation at Manville, New Jersey, and the 1977 programs "aimed at heightening employee and customer awareness of safe handling techniques for asbestos fiber and asbestos-containing products." It says little else about health.