Technical Practices Committee 15 was organized with the intent that this committee should ultimately concern itself with corrosion problems in all fields of transportation, including automobiles, trucks, buses, railroads and aircraft, but excluding pipe lines and marine transportation. It was decided at the start to organize the committee to deal with corrosion problems of the railroad field only and to so plan this group that it could become a sub-committee at a later date and also to serve as a guide in the formation of similar sub-committees concerned with corrosion problems in other fields of transportation.
Thus far, the committee has concerned itself only with corrosion problems in the railroad industries. The present objectives, which will later be the objectives of the sub-committee on railroads, are as follows:
Due to the magnitude of the problems confronting TP-15 it has been necessary to hold a minimum of three meetings a year...
