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LOF Advertisement Touts Safety Plate Glass

Text from 1939 Advertisement:

From any angle
in an direction

You see better
AND ARE MUCH SAFER

    Automobile drivers get a clear, undistorted view of the road ahead - there are no zigzag effects in the rapid-fire picture they got of the highway. They have Safety Plate Glass for their view.
    For a long, long time automobile manufacturers have seen to it that the drivers can judge distances accurately and have a clear view ahead by giving them Safety Plate Glass in the windshield.
    But how about the Lady in the Back Seat? Yes, and all the rest of the Back Seat Passengers?
    Many of these passengers resent being call "Back Seat Drivers", just because they get nervous over onrushing cars appearing scarily out of line when they really are only out of focus. They're demanding Safety Plate Glass in their windows too.
    And in many 1940 cars they're getting Plate Glass - the new L-O-F Hi-Test Safety Plate Glass - in the side windows as well as in the windshield.
    The Hi-Test plastic - tougher, stronger, more flexible - with which this Plate Glass "sandwich" is laminated makes this the safest safety glass ever manufactured.
    Sheet or window glass is all right for house. Houses don't move. A little zigzag doesn't matter much if it's standing still.
    But when these waves get to moving, as they do in an automobile, they set up a regular shimmer.
    And while you may think you have adjusted yourself to it in the side windows of your car, your eyes have not. They get tired and ache.
    Plate glass doesn't give the distortion - the zigzag effect of moving sheet glass - because it has been manufactured by special precision processes. It has been ground like an eyeglass, and polished like a gem.
    Look for the L-O-F Plate Mark of Quality - on the side windows and the windshield.
Safety Plate Glass is necessary in the windshield - It's important in the side windows. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio.