METALLIC LEAD PRIMING PAINTS FOR MARINE USAGE Available to Purchase

The title of this article may well have read ‘Metallic Lead Pigment as the Basis of Anti‐corrosive Paints,’ since such paints are proved to impart excellent protection to the steel surface. However, a satisfactory priming paint must possess in addition to corrosion‐inhibitive characteristics a considerable number of other properties in order that they may be commercially acceptable and in this article it is intended to consider the choice of a priming paint on this wider basis.