Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
It is the piece of glass opposite the windshield. Back glass is made from tempered glass, also known as safety glass, and when broken shatters into small, round pieces. [1] Windshields are made of laminated glass, which consists of two layers of glass, separated by a vinyl sheet. [2] Vehicle glass may contain heating coils or antennae. [3]
Libbey-Owens-Ford Company (LOF) was a producer of flat glass for the automotive and building products industries both for original equipment manufacturers and for replacement use. The company's headquarters and main factories were located in Toledo, Ohio , with large float glass plants in Rossford , Ohio , Laurinburg , North Carolina , Ottawa ...
Panoramic (wrap-around) windshield on a 1959 Edsel Corsair. The windshield (American English and Canadian English) or windscreen (Commonwealth English) of an aircraft, car, bus, motorbike, truck, train, boat or streetcar is the front window, which provides visibility while protecting occupants from the elements.
History of the automobile on About.com:Inventors site; History of Automobile Air Conditioning on NYC.net; Automotive History – An ongoing photographic history of the automobile. Taking the Wheel, Manufacturers' catalogs from the first decade of American automobiles; Automobiles (1915). James Slough Zerbe, New York: Cupples & Leon company.
Pilkington glass in a Mercedes-Benz A trailer with Pilkington livery. The company was founded in 1826 as a partnership between members of the Pilkington and Greenall families, based in St Helens, Lancashire, England. [1] The venture used the trading name of St Helens Crown Glass Company. [2] The company grew to become the biggest employer in St ...
That year, foreign sales contributed ¥5.17 billion, or almost $795 million, almost 28 percent of its sales that year. By that time, it was the fifth-largest maker of automotive glass in the world, with an estimated three percent market share, and held 60 percent market share of the automotive glass market in China. [7]
The Hillman Minx was another low-cost small car which was clearly not designed to be chauffeured, and in 1931 it was offered in a variety of body styles as was usual at that time, among the options was a sliding roof section [5] including, on the 1933 Aero model [6] with glass panels, as photographed on the 1932 show car, [7] making this the ...
The company was formed by a JV agreement between the Labroo family, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. (AGC), Japan, and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. It is the largest Automotive glass manufacturing company in India and manufactures a wide spectrum of glass products including automotive safety glass, float glass, and architectural processed glass.