NEVER WEARS OUT
A motor car engine that never wears out is promised by experiments being carried out by a big Gloucestershire engineering firm. The experiments are the outcome of a new process of steel hardening invented by a Dutchman named Vander Horst. His new chrome-hardened steels are declared to be the hardest metals yet used in motor engineering under commercial conditions. So hard is the new metal surface that it is claimed (hat carbon deposits cannot remain on it—and so the motorist’s fear of the cokedup engine are, it is believed, killed; ■ A secret method of electrolysis is used. The cylinder walls are more highly polished than glass, and are so hard that it is impossible to scratch them. Apart from cylinders, bearings can also be treated. So far tests have been confined almost exclusively to Diesel engines. The exceptionally smooth surface can be used for coating the leading edges of aircraft wings to prevent the formation of ice.
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Evening Star, Issue 22353, 1 June 1936, Page 15
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160NEVER WEARS OUT Evening Star, Issue 22353, 1 June 1936, Page 15
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