Nancy Prefers Gin Robert Pinner Metal Finishing Engineering Tools

Nancy Prefers Gin: An Anthology of Published Thoughts and Comments on Metal Finishing

Robert Pinner

'This is a happy book, the reading of which is intended to give pleasure. Nevertheless its anecdotes and light-hearted banter do not conceal the serious and deeply-felt thoughts of the Author on matters, both technical and commercial, which affect the metal finishing industry. Indeed its light-hearted approach makes its message all the more lucid and compelling. It comprises a selection of Editorial Comments and other items originally published in the pages of the monthly technical journal Electroplating, and Metal Finishing. Many are still relevant and it is believed that the more responsible members of the metal finishing community to whom they are addressed will find in them both enjoyment and food for thought. This book happens to be about the metal finishing industry but it is also about the price of tomatoes, herbs, machines which sing, consultants, patents and inventions, camels and committees, computers and strippers. It is like no other book that has been published on the metal finishing industry or indeed, so far as we are aware, on any other industry. The versatility of its contents is only matched by its field of usefulness for - to quote only two applications - it is equally suitable for taking home to read in bed or tor use in tne office as a talking point with which to start a difficult interview. The alter ego of the author is Mr. R. Pinner, B.Sc., F.I.Corr.T., F.I.M.F., Managing Director of a firm of consultants in metal finishing and effluent treatment and an internationally known authority on his subject.'

HB, 6.5 x 9.5", line drawings, 101 pages. D/j grubby and edge-scuffed, boards discolouring, pages good. 

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Airmail takes between three and five days. The Post Office warns that Surface mail to the USA, Australia, etc, can take as long as 12 weeks, but it is, obviously, a lot cheaper

In practice, American buyers tell me that Surface mail usually takes between 14 and 21 days (and apparently it actually travels by air, filling any space after the official Airmail items are loaded)