Razor Blade [SEP] manufacturer
Razor Blade
The Aston Martin Razor Blade team car was built in 1923 to break the one-hour light car record of held by AC Cars. Although it failed to break the record, it did have success in race and record attempts in the 1920s.
The August 1923 issue of The Light Car & Cyclecar magazine stated:
The latest Aston Martin racer… represents the greatest advance in high efficiency small car design.
History.
Standard Aston Martin parts were used on a specially built narrow chassis with quarter
straight razor blade (cut-throat razor) starts, at the Thiers Issard factory, as a shape called the blank supplied by the steel manufacturer. Thiers Issard traditionally has used Sheffield silver steel, long considered a superior quality carbon steel. The first step is to clean the blank using a heavy forge process called the "detourage". Following the forging stage a hole is drilled in the tang of the blade. This is a crucial step since after the steel hardening process it would be next to impossible to drill hardened