--- In STMFC@..., Ed Hawkins <hawk0621@...> wrote:

Armand,
You make an excellent point. Normally new cars receiving black car
cement on the ends and/or roofs had this coating applied first,
followed by the painting of the rest of the car (i.e., sides).

You mean like this?

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsac/1a34000/1a34600/1a34633v.jpg

Painting a car at the repair or "rip" tracks at North Proviso(?), C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill.

Delano, Jack, photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1942 Dec.

Note the slobber job of black car cement near the top corner of the side, which is about to get painted over.


Dennis