On 11/14/2014 10:52 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
In former times the "tin" ceilings were tin or tin-coated base metal. The
modern equivalent uses cheaper aluminum/aluminium.
An Americanism, perhaps? We also called steel cans coated with tin 'tin cans' and some older folks still use the term
for steel cans coated with other things. It may also be slang for a rickety old car.
The first stamped ceilings were un-coated steel. When tin coatings were added to retard rusting, the 'tin ceiling' was
born. Tin itself is mechanically unsuited as a material for the stamped panel on its own.
H. Lessons Moose
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