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Municipal Engineers-- 86% endorse one method of protecting metal -- and their practice u n ic ip a l engineers M strongly favor red- lead for protecting metal against corrosion. This fact was brought out by re plies to a questionnaire re cently sent out by a prom coincides with that of five other engineering groups fact that wherever men are faced with the question of metal surface protection, red-lead is the accepted material. Use Dutch Boy red-lead inent engineering organization. suiting engineers; and 24 out The highest grade red-lead is Thirty-six of the 42 who re of 28 industrial engineers said Dutch Boy red-lead. It is used plied, or 86 per cent, said they the same. In view of the many and recommended by the use, specify or recommend pure paints on the market the agree country's leading engineers. red-lead. ment of these men is remark You can get it in either the This only confirms the al able. It is. an unanswerable paste or liquid form. The liquid ready convincing evidence of argument for the effectiveness comes in the natural orange-red the wide use of red-lead by the of red-lead paint. for next-to-metal coats, and engineering profession. The same questionnaire sent to the Oil and gas men, too also in browns,greens and black for finishing coats. The paste is municipal engineers was also In addition to these engineers, obtainable in the natural or sent to representative men in men in the oil and gas indus ange-red and may be shaded to other groups. tries, who are vitally concerned any desired dark color. Here is what the others said : with construction and mainte We maintain a special tech Forty-one of the 46 railway nance of millions of dollars' nical staff who are always glad engineers who replied to the worth of iron and steel equip to help in the solution questionnaire also said they ment, were questioned in the use, specify or recommend same way. The replies showed of painting problems. Write nearest branch. pure red-lead. Twenty out of that the same practice of using 26 structural engineers; 40 out red-lead was as generally ad of 43 federal, state and county hered to by these industries. engineers; 18 out of 20 con- And so it seems to be a proved Dutch Boy Red-Lead NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY New York, m Broadway; Boston, 131 State Street; Buffalo, 116 Oak Street; Chicago, 900 West 18th Street; Cincinnati, 659 Freeman Avenue; Cleveland, 8so West Superior Avenue; St. Louis, 722 Chestnut Street; San Francisco, 485 California Street; Pittsburgh, National Lead it Oil Co. of Pa., 316 Fourth Avenue; Phila delphia, joKn T. Lewis e Bros. Co., 4.37 Chestnut Street. This advertisement appears in the following publication Page Engineering News Record--April 15 0000-NLI-000017451