Re: Been that way for more than half a century

Posted by Gerald J. on November 21, 2004 at 13:03:31 from (67.0.108.245):

In Reply to: bad news for collectors posted by old fashioned farmer on November 21, 2004 at 11:42:33:

Millions of tons of vintage cars, tractors, trucks, and implements went into WW2 armament. There were constant scrap drives wanting to overlook no ounce of available steel. I was too little to participate, but I recall that as recent history after the war. Only working vehicles and equipment survived because they were impossible (in the case of vehicles) or very difficult to replace.

Scrap drives were replaced by paper drives during the Korean war era.

For a few years back, scrap iron sometimes had such low value the scrap yards charged a fee for unloading. Things are different now. All the scrap metal from the world trade center surely had a severe depressing effect on scrap prices.

Before WW2, Japan and Germany bought lots of scrap planning to throws it back at us but we didn't detect it ahead of time.

Gerald J.

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