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 Post subject: Laminated windscreens
PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:24 pm 
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OK, being an old codger I'm aware that the Oz Cooper S got a Triplex laminated screen from the start, and I know all the common Minis back then didn't- they had a zone toughened one.
I guess maybe the Clubby GT got Triplex too?
Was a laminated windscreen standard factory fitment on later Clubbies- if so when did they come in?

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Kev

Also an old codger, my 77 clubbie had an laminated when I bought it 15 years ago.

My 68 Cooper S also had a laminated windscreen back in late 70 when I bought that.

Probably doesn't help you :cry:

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why do you ask?

oh and i don't know the answer.....

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AFAIR laminated came in about the time when seat belts came in and it was strongly recommended (mandatory?) that you fit seat belts when fitting a laminated screen.

Obviously, they were a lot tougher on human heads than the old zone toughened glass.

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AFAIR laminated came in about the time when seat belts came in and it was strongly recommended (mandatory?) that you fit seat belts when fitting a laminated screen.

Obviously, they were a lot tougher on human heads than the old zone toughened glass.

Seat belts came in in 1965, my `70 Matic has the zone toughened one still, not laminated.
As I said in the `60s only the S got it standard, that's because it was mandatory for competition then I think.

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I have a 77 clubby without the laminated screen.
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drmini in aust wrote:
9YaTaH wrote:
AFAIR laminated came in about the time when seat belts came in and it was strongly recommended (mandatory?) that you fit seat belts when fitting a laminated screen.

Obviously, they were a lot tougher on human heads than the old zone toughened glass.

Seat belts came in in 1965, my `70 Matic has the zone toughened one still, not laminated.
As I said in the `60s only the S got it standard, that's because it was mandatory for competition then I think.


Solly..wasn't being Mini-specific...just generalizing...so...if you chose to "upgrade" to one of the "new" fangled laminated screens it was "mandatory" to have seat belts fitted....if ya get my drift :?

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The Cooper S got the laminated screen because they were most likely to be used on the track where a laminated screen was mandatory.
I would imagine that the Clubman GT got the same treatment.

The special editions near the end of production got laminated screens but the normal models still got the plain one.
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Aha. :D
Ta for that Morris. Explains why my 9/1978 Clubby S hasn't got laminated. :wink:

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drmini in aust wrote:
Aha. :D
Ta for that Morris. Explains why my 9/1978 Clubby S hasn't got laminated. :wink:


My 1977 clubby S has a laminated screen and I have no reason to think it was anything else other than a factory or dealer fitted item. By the same token I dont know it hasn't been a replacement. I have owned the car for 15 years now though and it wasn't changed in my time.

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my 78 S has a laminated windscreen, but it has "12-89" written on it... i also knoow it has been in a smash as the passenger floor is a bit dinged up, one of the panels is crap and i keep finding little boits of smashed 9safely) glass in it. so i dunno, the windscreen has definately been replaced, but whther the safety glass was from a toughened windscreen or side window? not too sure

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What does the glass symbol look like? Is the usual AS symbol with laminated written beneath it?

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Original laminated ones in the 60's had `Triplex' on them.

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