Builders Plates

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John

The Class J builder's plates and class plates, as well as the throttle quadrant and any gauge rings were chrome plated, I'd guess they were back painted after the chrome plating and the letters polished back off. They were not ground back off to bronze.

Ken Miller

On Aug 14, 2015, at 10:12 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Ron
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> I'm curious. Is that chrome plating or paint?  Wonder why they would plate brass and then paint the front black and polish the letters back to brass?
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