Vintage Cars

[Roger Baker 2Participant @rogerbaker2]

Hi All

What did they call the process of producing the polished aluminium dash panels with overlapping circles?

Roger

[Roger Baker 2Participant @rogerbaker2]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

"Engine turning" is one name for it.

[Don CoxParticipant @doncox80133]

Engine turning.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Jewelling is another term for it.

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Well, according to Wheatley and Morgan's classic, "The restoration of Vintage and Thoroughbred Cars" it's called mottling.

Russell

[Kiwi BlokeParticipant @kiwibloke62605]

Tasteful in moderation, vulgar in excess. The Americans just love it!

[Roger Baker 2Participant @rogerbaker2]

Thanks guys. My late father used to do some of it. He was a Motor Body Builder and one of two companies in OZ reccomended by the Rolls Royce car club. I remember he and his leading hand using an English Wheel making a mudguard for a 20's Hispano Suiza from a photograph.

Roger

[Adrian GilesParticipant @adriangiles39248]

Crikey!, what was the photograph made of then!😄

I'll get my coat

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Adrian Giles on 11/08/2018 22:25:45:

Crikey!, what was the photograph made of then!😄

I'll get my coat

Perhaps it was a tintype.

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

Have also seen it described as 'snailing'
DaveD

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