Gold-film Screens Counter Ice
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GOLD-F1LM glass windscreens have ‘.-Z been fitted to heavy-duty lorries which will operate at sub-zero temperatures in Canada and in Scandinavia. The windscreens have been manufactured in the Triplex factory at King's Norton, Birmingham, for Euclid (Great Britain), Ltd., Motherwell.
Gold-film glass counters the problem of ice on windscreens. A Minute thickness of gold on the glass carries an .electric heating current. Where low temperatures are encountered, the panels are effective in counteracting ice on the windscreen.
Dumpers fitted with the new windscreens will operate in Canada, Newfoundland, Finland, Sweden and Norway. On one of the Swedish projects, the Work of the vehicles will inclikle operations inside a tunnel driven into a hillside.
A certain amount of condensation will take plate inside the tunnel, and when the vehicle emerges into the open, where the temperature is well below zero, the windscreen would normally become immediately coated with ice. With a gold-film panel, however, this danger will be eliminated.
LOSSES SINCE 1924 OUTES from Market Weighton to I South Cave have been run at a loss by three different services since 1924, it was stated at Bridlington on Monday, when Mr. J. France, of Ideal Motor Services, Market Weighton, applied for increased fares to the York shire Licensing Authority. ,
In granting increases -in return fares of from 3d.-5d., the Authority said it was hoped that Mr. France would be able to keep the service going. It would be a pity, he added, if it had to be completely withdrawn, although Mr. Frhl es was losing money.