Train Built of Glass
SHORTLY TO TOUR BRITAIN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 8.10 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 29. The first all-glass train, built in strips of flexible glass along the full length and containing altogether 120,000 mirrors, will shortly tour th© country. It will traverse 3,01110 of the longest tunnels in Britain, but experts declare that the smoke will not dim the glittering surface. They laugh at the possibility of breakages. The walls, floors and ceilings are all of glass. A rotunda gives an impression of a hall of mirrors. The builders have achieved wonderful effects with glass bricks, curved panels and “armour-plated” strips, which bend but do not break under ten t;ons weight. It is called the glass-age exhibition train.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 258, 30 October 1937, Page 5
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