RESISTS BURNS
NEW SYNTHETIC RAYON (Times Air Mail Service) London, Oct. 4 Glamour clothes for women may soon be made out of a new non-in-flammable rayon material, occording to the Daily Mail. It is an entirely new kind of fabric and will lend itself to fresh effects of dyes and manufacture. The fabric may also be used in a new Lind of “silk” stocking that will not ladder. It was invented by Dr. J. B. Speakman, head of the Department of Textile Industries at Leeds University. He said at Bradford recently that use of the material would enable a saving to be made in materials for war purposes. Scientists have been experimenting for months to produce substitutes for fabrics made scarce owing to the war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21304, 24 December 1940, Page 9
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