Re: [FWDLK] Glass Houses

[Rog & Jan van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a Chrysler film from 1934 extolling the virtues of
safety glass all around.  They put a babe in a Chrysler
Airflow and had a pitcher huff a baseball at the side
window.  It cracked but didn't break.  They also did the
same with another brand, looks like a Ch--y, and the ball
went thru one side window and then out the other side
window.

IIRC solid tempered glass was first installed on the side
and maybe rear windows about 1960 or maybe 1962.  The
windshields were still laminated.

--Roger van Hoy, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '42 DeSoto, '41
Dodge, '66 Plymouth, '81 Imperial, Washougal, WA


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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 10:26 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] Glass Houses


| Thanx, Bob, I do seem to recall "Safety Glass"
| being mentioned, in-passing, in the late 50's.
| Funny thing, tho, does anyone recall seeing any particular
advertising,
| extoling the merits of the laminated window glass??-as in
| photos/demonstrations of what/how the Safety glass
is/works?
|
| I may be wrong (again) , but I believe that only the
windshields had the
| Safety Glass--if so, when was laminated glass installed in
most/all
| of a car?
|
| Neil
|
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