Originally Posted by
ignotus
The Birmabright Works closed in 1980. :^(
gene
that explains so much!! thanks!!
they say that many many manufacturer's made an exact same formula of alloy....but I
tend to disagree. My uncle used to be a managing engineer at AlCOA...and he says that while they did have an aluminum and magnesium (I fpget the alcoa #), it was the ratios between the three metals (aluminum, magnesium and manganese) that varied slightly between manufacturers...even though they weren't supposed to.
I think Birmabright Ltd(or whatever they were called officially) had just hit upon the perfect ratio of those three metals...maybe wth just enough manganese to counter all but very minimal oxidation.
1970 Series IIA 88".,...the REAL Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.