That's quite an article, Bill. Thank you for sharing.
The article mentions how there were few pictures of any given working atelier (studio), which definitely was & remains as an effective means to protect proprietary methods and works. In my field, it is no different. It's also just as common for maquettes (models) to be destroyed at the end of a working career as it is for them to be preserved. Everything would be smashed and those pieces even escorted to the dump so that no one could readily duplicate their work. Sometimes specialty equipment was also deliberately scrapped as a means of limiting the transfer of technology.
Is there record in the coach building trades of maquettes, bucks, even larger equipment (like Olive Machines) being deliberately destroyed for similar reasons?
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