BRITAIN’S NEW PLASTIC
UNUSUAL PROPERTIES BENEFIT TO INDUSTRY (Special Correspondent.) (9.30 a.m.) , LONDON Jan. 28 “The perfect plastic is sa.d to ffi.ve been produced by experts from Imperial Chemical Industries co-opeiatm Q with specialists on Vickers Armstrong staff in the Barrow shipyards. The secret of the composition is being closely guarded. Experts considei that the new material, to wracii no name has yet been given, may well revolutionise many brandies o. industry. At present the Admiralty is using it for outer casings of submarine batteries. The plastic is said to look and l'eel like candlewax. It is unbreakable, non-inflammable and heat resisting. It is of a much lighter density than wood, will float, and is waterproof. It can be sawed like wood.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21932, 29 January 1946, Page 4
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