Recent Developments in Painting Motor Cars

SummaryConsiderable changes in the painting processes employed in the motor industry are likely to come about through the development of acrylic paints as colour coats, the introduction of water-soluble primers and the employment of electrocoating methods. A brief outline of the progress made in automobile painting in recent years is given, but the major part of the paper concentrates on the electrocoating process, “Die advantages of this process as compared with the processes normally used are discussed and its introduction by the author's organization is described. Process operating conditions, in particular, are dealt with in some detail.