Some Nuggets about Zinc
Your name:
Wendy Kirk
Entry:
The body of the car is said to be made from zinc. Is zinc poisonous? Where does it come from?
zinc deficiency and zinc poisoning
Your name:
catherine Hoffmann
Entry:
Could the young boy have been trying to lick/bite his way to the zinc underneath the paint? As a pica sufferer he could have been difficient in zinc and needed the metal body of the car!
An innocuous object - or is it?
Your name:
MB Swiger
Entry:
What is the impetus for a child to lick a car? Would the serum levels of lead have built up so slowly that he would not have felt any change in his behaviour or his mentation?
Flourescent x-ray machine depicting metal content
Entry:
The toy car was taken to the institute of Archaeology to be put into their XRF machine (flourescent x-ray) by lab technician Simon Groom.
Colour measurement of toy car at UCL
Entry:
Colour measurement of toy car at UCL
Lindsay MacDonald
Geomatic Engineering
Dame Barbara Clayton
Entry:
Dame Barbara Clayton was almost certainly the biochemist / toxicologist who conducted the analysis of the lead paint sample in 1963.
Alchemy: Lead into Gold
Entry:
Alchemy is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances d
3 Extinct Nocturnal Animals
Entry:
3 Extinct Nocturnal animals
* Dire Wolf
* Diprotodon
* Giant Ground Sloth
1960 Ford Sunliner 6.0 V8 Hybrid
Entry:
This car is not only an image of the paint industry in the United States and Europe in the 1960's, it tells us more.
Pigment Analysis by Optical Polarising Light Microscopy
Your name:
Ruth Siddall
Entry:
Object Retrieval: Enamel-painted toy car; c. 1960-63
