Coated shaft golf clubs 1930s-1950s – PART 1. Introduction of steel shafts & end of hickory shafts.

Part 1 of a 3 part review of the coated-shaft era of golf clubs, currently a sadly neglected area. The introduction of steel golf shafts from the late 1920s through to the late 1930s, by which time hickory shafts had all but disappeared apart from their occasional use in putters.
This first part focuses on woods.
This was also a time of great innovation in iron head design and we follow that development in part 2.
Pyratone, painted and chrome steel shafts.
The emphasis is primarily on UK produced clubs.