THOUSANDTH INCH

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 190, 8 December 1941, Page 2

THOUSANDTH INCH

BRITISH GLASSMAKERS' WAR ACHIEVEMENTS England has opened the first training centre of its kind in the British Empire for teaching young workers glassblowing and glass instrument making. From it they go on to a factory, built by Government permission since the war began, for the production of scientific glassware. Here are made all types of lampblown apparatus and graduated g.asswarc from a carboy (a basket-covered llagon for corrosive liquids) to precision micro pipettes for blood counts, which are in considerable demand for blood transfusions after air raids. The.v turn out chemical thermometers ranging in length from one inch to eighteen leet. circular thermometers with a bore as fine as n human hair, and other measuring instruments with division only one thousandth of an inch apart. A new ceramics department is producing delicate enamel work for use in research and permanent fired enamelled devices like badges and i dent ificat ion 1 abe Is. Official figures show that last year increases in exports of plate and sheet glass, glass containers, domestic and fancy glassware, and glassware for lighting ranged from H) to 50 per cent compared with 19:51).