AN ALL-GLASS TRAIN
rpHE first all-glass train designed by a Lancashire firm, which seeks to show the use of glass as a decorative medium, has completed a 2,000 miles tour of Britain, during which time it visited 39 towns and cities. This Glass Age Exhibition Train, as i: is called, may later tour the principal railways on the Continent. The train is built almost entirely of glass. Strips of mirrored glass run along the full length of it in 120,000 minature mirrors, and the walls, floors and ceilings are all of glass in addition to', the interior fittings, including a bathroom and a cocktail bar.
P Among the 200 varieties oi gust s used or shown on the train are two - of the industry's outstanding modem 3 products. One is insulight glasg i masonry, consisting of the new glast :. brick which is already being widely s used in buildings on account of iti - high insulating value for temperaI ture and sound, as well as its light, f transmitting properties. The other i exhibit is armc ir plate glass, which 3 possesses great fire-resisting proper. :, tier and mechanical strength. It can i be twisted through an angle of 30 - degrees without breaking, and will 1 withstand temperatures of from minus 70 degs. C. to plus 300 degs C.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 3
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