About this Vintage Print Ad
A black-and-white industrial advertisement for Wheeling Steel promoting Ductilite tin plate for sardine containers and other food packaging. The ad emphasizes uniform gauge, even coating, internal purity, external strength, lightness, ductility for unusual shaping, economy, easy handling, sealing performance, and suitability for high-speed packing. It claims lower cost through higher production speed, less breakage, fewer rejections, deeper shaping, and better resistance to corrosion and stain, especially for fish and foods packed in acid juices.
- Brand: Wheeling Steel
- Product: Wheeling Steel Ductilite tin plate
- Tagline: Ductilite is the first revolutionary improvement in tin plate in more than three hundred years
- Publication: Fortune
- Year: 1935
Objects in the advertisement: sardine can, factory workers, assembly line, boats, building, stacked metal sheets, logo emblem, ship wheel
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