Safety Glass for Cars. Every day scientists are inventing some new safety device for motor cars. The latest is a new type of glass which has been perfected in the Franklin Institute, after six years of research and the expenditure of millions of dollars, states the New Zealand Traveller. This glass is strong enough to stop a halfpound steel ball travelling at the rate of 50ft a second, broken it can be rolled up "'like a rug." Road safety has advanced another step.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 156, 17 September 1941, Page 5
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