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Co n t r a c t o r s n o w a d d e d TO THE LIST
43 out of 54 endorse
the same method of protecting metal
BUILDING and structural the engineeringprofession. One and contractors answering the steel contractors form one hundred and seventy-nine ofthe questionnaire said they use more group whose practice i2t 06 engineers who answered Dutch Boy red-lead. Dutch
is to use red-lead for protecting said they, too, use, specif/, or Boy is the highest grade r^ metal against corrosion. In this recommend pure red-lead. And lead on the market. You
they agree with the method fol this number included practically get it in either the paste or'*
lowed generally, by men in all every engineering group-- liquid form. The liquid comes
branches of the engineering structural engineers, consulting in the natural orange-red for
-profession.
A questionnaire recently sent by a prominent engineering pub lication to a representative group of building and structural con
engineers, railway engineers, municipal engineers, industrial engineers, and men engaged in federal, state and county engi neering work.
next-to-metal coats, and also in browns, greens, and black for finishing coats. The paste is obtainable in the natural orangered and may be shaded to any
tractors established this fact. In answer to the question "What paintformetal protection?" 43, or 86%, of the 54 who answered the questionnaire, said that whenever the choice of paint is left in their hands they use red-lead.
Why they favor red-lead
Some of the engineers and con tractors made interesting com ments. They spoke of the econ omy of red-lead, its unusual spreading power, its splendid protective qual ities, its adherence to the
desired dark color.
We maintain a Department ofTechnical Service. Specialists in this department have made a study of metal surface protec
tion. They will be glad to assist you with your paint problems. Write them in
Agreement of the engineers
metal surface, its ease of
care ofour nearest branch.
This is the same questionnaire application, and its resist that convincingly showed how ance to gases.
generally red-dead is accepted by
Many of the engineers
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY
Dutch
Boy
Red-Lead
New York, HI Broadway
Boston, 131 State St.
Buffalo, 116 Oak St.
Chicago, 900 West 18th St.
Cincinnati, 659 FreemanAve. Cleveland, 820 WestSuperior Ave.
Sc. Louis, 722 Chestnut Sc. Sun Francisco. 485 California Sc.
Pittsburgh, National Lead & Oil Co, ofP3.. 316 Fourth Ave.
Philadelphia, John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., 437 Chestnut St.
This advertisement appears in the following publication: Page Engineering News Record--May 13
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