The Automotive Manufacturer Volume 51. Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 412 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231147443
File size: 20 Mb
File Name: The.Automotive.Manufacturer.Volume.51.pdf
Download Link: The Automotive Manufacturer Volume 51
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...possibly be no middle ground--the best is none too good. The service to which a varnish is exposed upon the massive bulk of the automobile is of the most exacting imaginable sort. The swaying and oscillation and "jouncing" to which the surface must respond is fairly incredible, and it calls for a body of varnish at once in harmony with the coats of color and pigment supporting it, and sufficiently elastic to hold up bravely against the terrific body strains without fracturing its film. Hard usage, however, does not wholly come as a result, or in the form, of hard driving, regardless of highway conditions. The "chauffeur" appears, as a rule, to have a supreme contempt for any reasonable kind of care-taking of the surface. If the machine is forced through mud sloughs, rain storms and all sorts of weather conditions inimical to the finery of the varnish, and comes to the garage flecked with mud and road accumulations, it is the rare care-taker who sets about immediately to place the vehicle in position and bathe it off in clean, cold water, thus easing tho strain from the varnish and flushing away the poisons and other deleterious substances which both spot the varnish and attacks its lustre. The chauffeur prides himself on being a machinist, capable of doing daring mechanical stunts, but he has little respect, and shows less, for the surface of varnish. Here, then, is the reason why the automobile painter should exercise the finest discrimination in buying and using varnish. It, moreover, is additionally the reason why he should sound a note of warning to the automobile owner, and to all parties involved in taking care of the horseless carriage, in regard to giving the varnish such treatment as will increase its durability, its lustre and ...
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