If you've never heard of 233+, then ask any auto body shop. They'll tell you that the Ontario-produced tape is the world's go-to masking tape for returning dinged cars to former glory. Its history ...

When Richard Drew, who worked for the 3M company, found out about this issue while delivering sandpaper (then 3M’s primary product) to auto body shops, he developed masking tape to solve it.

So automakers and auto body shops improvised. They glued old newspapers to ... Drew's serendipitous quest began in 1929, four years after the introduction of Scotch ® Brand Masking Tape. Flaxlinum ...

Masking tape simplified the process of painting two ... and often resulted in a sticky mess. Drew walked into an auto body shop one day and heard the "choicest profanity I'd ever known" coming ...