Abstract: Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel for forming into bellows having high resistance to stress corrosion cracking, comprising, in terms of wt %, not greater than 0.02% of C, from 0.1 to 1.5% of Si, not greater than 1.0% of Mn, from 11.0 to 22.0% of Cr, from 0.01 to 0.08% of Al, not greater than 0.015% of N, at least one of not greater than 0.6% of Ti and not greater than 1.0% of Nb, whenever necessary, and furthermore, at least one of not greater than 2% of Mn, not greater than 1.5% of Cu and not greater than 1.5% of Ni. This steel has the crystal grain size measured in a section in a direction orthogonal to a rolling direction is not greater than 8.5 in terms of the grain size number, and the crystal grain size measured in a section orthogonal to a section parallel to the rolling direction is not smaller than 5.0 on an average in terms of the grain size number.

Abstract: A magnetic head having layered structure for a recording medium for vertical magnetization contains a conductor body on a non-magnetic substrate for conducting the magnetic flux with two magnet legs, the end pieces of which form a thin main pole and a comparatively thicker auxiliary pole. The two magnetic poles are separated by an insulating gap layer of at least 5 .mu.m. This magnetic head and particularly its gap layer should be relatively simple to produce. Recesses are provided in the substrate to submerge at least the end piece of the auxiliary pole of one magnet leg and an adjoining part of this leg as well as at least part of the gap layer.