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Protection against corrosion in the automotive industry Those with memories of motoring in pre‐war days, or even early post‐war, are fond of telling us how their cars did not corrode to the extent that ours do today. In the main, this is true. Not because of the reason they usually put forward, i.e. “we had at least six coats of good paint”, but because metal gauges have become progressively thinner in order to save weight; salting of roads in wintertime is a post‐war practice; and the higher speeds of today mean more damage to paint films by flying stones and gravel.