|
Wellworthy's closed a long time ago. I knew the firm well, and had been there as an advisor. I don't think they would have been best pleased to hear their products were not up to standard.
Now the melted down saucepans! It never happened, all the saucepans and iron railings that were collected were left in a damn great heap and never used.
Aluminium in its normal state is useless, It only becomes a viable metal as an alloy. The most common alloy combines copper, that produces duralium "Dural" in the old days. Copper is an electrical conductor so where aluminium is used in places where it Must be "non conductive" Such as in Atomic Energy uses, then Silicone is the alloying agent that makes aluminium "Viable" though the Dural Cooper mix is by far the best.
The very idea that any engineering component would be sent into a battle zone without close inspection is ridiculous.
Where do these stories come from? One author wanting to sell his book invents something and all the others quote him as reference,
These claims of dodgy trucks are the same trucks that did that long red ball journey from Normandy to Holland without one breakdown. The only losses we sustained were from enemy action.
Sapper
|