WAR ACHIEVEMENTS.
GLASSMAKERS IN BRITAIN. England lias opened the first training centre of its kind in the British Empire for teaching young workers glassblowing and glass instrument making. From it they go on to a factory, built by Government permission since the war began, for the production of scientific glassware. Here are made all types of lampblown apparatus and graduated glassware from a. carboy (a basket-covered flagon for corrosive liquids) to precision micro pipettes for blood counts, which are in considerable demand for blood transfusions after air raids. They turn out chemical thermometers ranging in length from one inch to I feet, circular thermometers with division only one thousandth of an inch apart. A new ceramics departments is producing gigantic enamel work for use in research and permanent fired enamelled devices like badges and identification labels.
Official figures show that last year increases in exports of plate and sheet glass, glass containers, domestic and fancy glassware, and glassware for lighting ranged from 16 to 50 per cent, compared with 1939.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 85, 21 January 1942, Page 7
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