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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1970 June 7 DOC#: NMA157 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: WNEW Radio Transcript - Electric Vehicle has Asbestos on Brakes RADIO T V REPORTS. INC A CACT 4 S no CTRCCT. NEv YORr W V 10017. 6 9 ? *_ - rr/ TO JOHNS--MANVILLE CORPORATION program date News Closeup June 7, 1970 - 8:05 P.M STATION KNEW earv New York . ELECTRIC VEHICLE HAS ASBESTOS OH BRAKES (Have been discussing an electricity-powered garbage collec tion vehicle as an anti--pollution device.) WAN: Nell, the car doesn't - the truck doesn't run when you're not moving. In other words, there's no pollution heing Bade when you're not moving. CHRISTOPHER BLATT: Roving? Do yet make pollution vher. you arc KnN; No, no. Nts have a hermetically-sealed motor, and there's r.o oaer.c coring frer. that. fhar. you step, there's a little bit of asbestos pollution from the brakes, which is normal *ri th any MiltrwnotHv m vahir>la. BLATT: We w a l d n ' t - do we consider that to be a major source of the asbestos pollution that we're beginning to bear a lot about? ON; Wall . th a ca n s aniint t-hat- anv t r u r r won 1ri o <vp . perhaps a little less on this, because we normally brake with the motor. C BAN r s A N C I tC O N TW C N O U M O --- T n f p