From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Article on the challenges of painting steel wings to prevent rust.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\1\ Scan200 | |
| Date | 16th March 1932 | |
| HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} X/55. DA {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /EV {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} 4/M16.3.32. Copy to - CX. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} STEEL & ALUMINIUM WINGS. X.155 In a recent issue of the Automobilt Engineer, and in an article by a member of the Pressed Steel Body Corporation at Cowley it is stated that while painting has proved reasonably successful on all steel bodies, no known method of painting or plating has been satisfactory on wings which rapidly rust. They have considered stainless ferrous metals, but on the grounds of cost and difficulty of working have had to leave them for the present. DA {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} /EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||