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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,715
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Glass worker carrying a tube of rolled glass at Pilkington Glass Ltd of St Helen's, Lancashire, 1918. |
Wow, cool and impressive. And then you look at the girl and think about that girl having that job at her age.
I wonder if that cylinder was destined to stay in that form. I would assume so, but maybe this was the ultimate destination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_drawn_cylinder_sheet_glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_sheet_glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_blown_sheet_glass
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
Last edited by masraum; 11-08-2022 at 10:05 AM..
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