CORROSION COMMENTARY

Abstract

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. ‘A MINISTRY of metal care or preservation is now as necessary as a Ministry of Supply’ was one of the statements made by Mr. T. Henry Turner, chairman of the Corrosion Group, when he delivered the third chairman's address recently. Entitled ‘A Pilgrim's Progress from Corrosion,’ the address contained a fascinating account of Mr. Turner's personal fight against corrosion and the many fields in which he has met its challenges over a period of 35 years. From early work with sprayed metal coatings and nickel plating to the diverse corrosion problems which confront the chief chemist and metallurgist of a railway company, Mr. Turner has encountered at one time or another most aspects of industrial corrosion. It was he who during the last war suggested the use of modern boiler‐water treatment, with inhibitors to prevent boiler corrosion and to avoid descaling, which was subsequently adopted by the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy. He was the first to have stainless‐steel components made for his bicycle and claims that his 1926 motor car was the first in the country to have its bumpers specially chromium‐plated on a heavy undercoating of nickel. The introduction of mirror‐polished stainless‐steel knives had, according to his records, reduced the number of sharpenings necessary over a period of seven years from about 7,000 to 14.

Citation

(1957), "CORROSION COMMENTARY", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 4 No. 6, pp. 179-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb019332