New Plating For Bright Parts

NZ Truth, Issue 1105, 3 February 1927, Page 14

New Plating For Bright Parts

Motorists of the near future, it appears, will be relieved of the ref sponsibility of going over all the bright parts of their cars with cloth and metal polish. For accounts of a new system of plating indicate that the day of nickel and brass is over. " - : ' , The new method. has been developed from, the well known Firth stainless 1 steel. ..■ '• ' •;•••■ '.."■'• :' : - '■ -' The. ever-bright property •of that steel was obtkined ; by alloying it with chromium— a hitherto rather -expensive metal— expensive owing to the difficulty of extracting it from its parent ores. '-.'.. .--". ... . •: - , : •:■: That difficulty, however, has to a great extent been overcome, and chromium has i . come within the sphere of .comnierclalV metals. But chromium plating js as yet too neW : a . -thing 1 to .be a cheap thing. Motorists have to pay far ' more for it than for nickle or brass, or even silver. /' ; \ -. ■■.■>■■■. All commercialized new discoveries, however^ are expensive m their infancy, and cheap' and efficient chromium plating may "confidently be anticipatoa for the near future. We Fhall /probably see instances of it on this year's cars. ■"' . . '■ •■'..■- .'■■■.■/. ;:- '■' v '--. £