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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).
Challenges of painting steel and aluminium wings to prevent rust, referencing an article from the Automobile Engineer.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 178\3\  img116
Date  16th March 1932
  
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STEEL & ALUMINIUM WINGS.
X155.
In a recent issue of the Automobile 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.
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