Following on from David Deacon’s excellent Part 3 article in the Corrosion Management of May/June 2009, I want to describe a slightly bizarre event involving NACE in the U.K.

Several years ago when NACE was holding courses at Low Edges Sheffield, my late friend and former teacher at Newton Heath, Moston and John Dalton Colleges, Ray Stott was appointed a coating consultant at CAPCIS Manchester.

One day he answered a telephone call from a painting contractor. The gist of the call was he had heard of the NACE courses, what was the cost? Ray told him it was ‘eight fifty’ per module. The contractor said the cost of £8.50 was very attractive, and he would be sending several of his coating team to enrol. Then Ray had to ‘break the bad news’ that the modules cost £850 each.

Was this the same historical era when coating manufacturers had to ‘lend’ steel wet film thickness gages, to improve the quality of application?

My conclusions are that any attitudes and practices have moved on with the aid of excellent training courses provided in partnership between our Institute and reputable commercial organisations It also supports the truism that we all live on the memory of others!

Barry Windsor.  North West Branch

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