Report DC-83 Project Humber 11-3 \o Humber of Fages 401 RESEARCH LABORATORIES DIVISION GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION Detroit, Michigan THE EARLY HISTORY OF`ETHYL GASOLINE Reported by: T.

Inasmuch as the literature in regard to tetraethyl lead that I have received from Dr.

Inasmuch as the literature in regard to tetraethyl lead that I have received from Dr.

Jones* opinion that you were sending in an order for a small quantity of tetraethyl lead with which to make pre liminary observations.

J., for the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, and of one of the stations at which the ethyl fluid is mixed with gaso line.

Van .nartesveldt - (2) - March 29, 1948 - tetraethyl lead through the skin.

TETRAETHYL LEAD - THE DISPOSITION OF AN INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL HAZARD. by Robert A. ileh oe, a.D.

<L i 5 (2) The Resign of Commercial operations The primary features of the production and distribution of tetraethyl lead, from the hygienic viewpoint, were predetermined by its intended use as an antiknock agent in a low concentration in gasoline.

The blood changes associated with tetraethyl lead poisoning are never of any consequence.

The painstaking and costly research that resulted in discovery of the knock-suppressing qualities of tetraethyl lead was begun a few years before the outbreak of the first World War.

(Bill) Bennett swore before a notary public that he had contracted tetraethyl lead poison ing and that recently an employee of a well known automobile service station at Okmulgee had died of tetraethyl lead poisoning The purpose of this advertisement appeared as a testimonial for the Model Drug Store at 215 East Main Street* Okmulgee* -who are pushing the sales of Flood* Ointment* as a skin salve I went to Okmulgee and called on Hr* Flood* a very elderly gentleman who told me that he knew nothing about tetraethyl lead poisoning and all that he was attempting to do was to promote the sale of his ointment Hone of the literature at the Model Drug Store makes any reference whatever to tetraethyl lead 1 then looked up Mr C.

It is my understanding that it is the intention of your Company to permit the use of tetraethyl lead in gasoline of 82 octane number and above, limiting this to gasoline for aviation purposes, in amount.not to exceed 4-1/2 e.c. tetraethyl lead per U.

by the Public Health stimulus to some reexamination of the entire problem relative to the use of lead-containing antiknock preparations^/ has arisen out of technologic considerations that have prompted and initiated the use of tetransethyl lead as a supplement, or perhaps as a substitute in whole or in part, for tetraethyl lead.

Tetraethyl lead has long been accepted generally as a valuable ackiitiife to gasoline for use in automotive and aeronautical gasoline, and satisfactory means have been found for tho control of all of the occupational hazards that have been associated with its production, its transportation, and. its addititfYl to gasoline.

Even with such a toxic substance as lead tetraethyl he states (Tetraethyl Lead Poisoning.