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Originally Posted by Jeff Gordon
This is the US style.
Everywhere you go in the Pacific you will find cattle yards, fences, gates, trailers, you name it, made out of the stuff.
I would like to know how many hundreds of tons of the stuff was made during the war. No wonder there was a metal shortage.
They still use it today but a slightly different profile and I think it is Aluminium now?
Cheers
Jeff
P.S check out the Cab 12!
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During the war the United States made 2,000,000 tons of the stuff. Yes, that's not a typo, as Dr. Evil would say, " Two Meeelliion tons!" They also made PAP (Perforated Aluminum Planking) as well as PSP (perforated Steel Planking) during the war. One will still see lots of PSP to this day as the high Manganese content in the steel alloy has helped preserve the planking.