Glass . Research Should Streamline Bus Bodies
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By 1960, toughened glass will be used for combined wrap-round and wrapover windscreens, which will mean coaches and buses being equipped with dome sections in one piece, with the glazing at the ends and sides.
This forecast was made last week by the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., when technicians gave the Press an insight into work being undertaken by the company at their Balsa]] (Warwicks) laboratory.
Since the laboratory opened last December, painstaking research has been done aimed at improving visibility through a shattered plate of toughened glass. The team has also been concerned with vehicles operating in arctic conditions, developing a built-in method of defeosting windscreens and glass panels.
Where shattered glass is concerned, the answer appears to lie in increasing the size of broken pieces, and already developments in heat treatment have produced results. However, it is hoped one day to by-pass conventional heat treatment methods, and work to this end is now in progress.
To help them examine surface characteristics, the research workers use a microscope which magnifies up to 60,000 times, and they claim that this is the only one used for glass research.