PLASTIC WARMTH.
HOME, TRAIN AND CAR. LONDON. Sir William Yarworth Jones, who is 74 years’ot age, after years of experiments at his Kingston, Surrey, home, has invented a plastic electric-heating panel, which will keep people warm at home, at work, and when travelling. One of the big railway companies lias already experimented with the panels for warming passenger coaches. “There are countless other uses,” Sir William told a “Daily Mail” reporter. “The panels could be used round a room or under the carpet; as heaters for beds, motor-cars, buses, aeroplanes, or tlie saloons and cabins of ships.” Sir William has also produced reinforced plastics with a breaking load of between 120 and 132 tons to the square inch, yet four times lighter than steel. The Southern Railway is using it for its new passenger luggage vans, and saving nearly three tons in each van.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 205, 12 June 1945, Page 3
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