SAVING TIN
RESEARCH WORKERS ACTIVE. A new pewter, 70 per cent stronger than at present, has been produced by research workers in Great Britain and U.S.A. They have also discovered a new alloy for tailshaft bearings of ships, a substitute for aluminium milk bottle caps, and important improvements in bronzes. These two groups of workers, the Tin Research Institute in Britain and the Battelle Memorial Institute in the U.S.A., may also be able to reduce by 10 per cent, with very little risk of spoiling food packs, the amount of tin used on tinplate. The knowledge which has been accumulated on the subject on both sides of the Atlantic is proving most valualbe now that the war in the Pacific has for a time deprived the Allies of one of their sources of tin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 6
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134SAVING TIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 6
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