GLASS AGE TRAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 83, 8 April 1938, Page 11

GLASS AGE TRAIN

TOUR THROUGH BRITAIN

A "glass age exhibition train" arrived at Victoria recently, says the "Manchester Guardian," another of the many signs that glass as a material for architecture and interior decoration has at last been discovered by this country. This train, consisting of two almost entirely glass-covered coaches, was made for a famous Liverpool firm of glass-makers. It has travelled some 1000 miles, has been seen by about 250,000 people in the North, and is now to travel another 1000 miles in the South of England. There are said to be two hundred varieties of glass. This train contains most of them—and mostly as being already used in houses, flats, or factories. A bathroom fitted completely (except for the bath) in glass is one feature. Bathrooms and kitchens are being glass-fitted nowadays in a num- ( ber of not-so-expensive homes. One has seen glass as a floor material wildly misused, but the glass floors in the train are quite pleasant. Glass rollingpins and "feathered" washboards are two other exhibits. Both of these have become wall decorations, and indeed the washboards are said to be having quite a vogue now in Mayfair. There are other curiosities—a "vitrolite" glass which can be used as curtain or tablecloth and a glass which can be bent and can resist great heat.