AN INDUSTRY NEW TO ENGLAND.
Another industry new to England is to be located in Birmingham, the manufacture of a new form of glass which previously has been made only in Italv.
Tlie glass is a sandwich made of two pieces of thin brown sheet glass with a centre layer of glass silk. Its principal use is as a building material, and it will form a substitute for various kinds of roofing materials, and even bricks and mortar in certain constructions.
Glass silk is one of the best forms of heat-insulating material, and, as a consequence, premises glazed with this new glass will be cool in summer and warm in winter. Owing to the fact that the sun’s rays will not pass through the glass the light is perfectly distributed with an almost entire ab sence of shadow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 124, 24 April 1935, Page 7
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138AN INDUSTRY NEW TO ENGLAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 124, 24 April 1935, Page 7
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