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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 May 1928, Page 6

THE NEW FORD BULLETIN. To give an idea of how engineers and safety experts regard Triplex unshatterable glass for motor ear windshields, it is interesting to note the result of a recent poll in America of safety councils, engineers, automobile writers ami impartial students of modern trends in the motor industry. The result of the voting was that 41 per cent were of the opinion that nonslratterable glass was the most essential pending change in the modern car; 21 per cent voted for automatic chassis lubrication, whilst the balance voted for other general improvements. Triplex, which we notice is standard on the new Ford ear windshields, is a non-shatterable, clear vision glass with no wires in its structure, and consists briefly of two outside layers of glass with a middle binding layer of plastic. The three are welded together under heat and pressure, and the produce passes. through seventeen different operations before it is passed as Triplex. During the war, aviators were* protected by goggles and windshields made of Triplex glass, whilst the glass for submarines and safety screens for high speed übmarine chasers was also of this same material. Flying glass, usually from windrihild'R, is responsible for G 5 per cent of all injuries incurred in automobile accidents in America. Tlri.s unshatternble glass, which by actual test is 50 per cent stronger than plate glass of equal thickness, will not do more than crack. There are no flying splinters or, jaged edges. Although flexible under compact, it cannot be cut with a diav mond. *