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A closed ventanilla below a capiz shell main window.. In Philippine architecture, the ventanilla is a small window or opening below a larger window's casement, created—often reaching the level of the floor—to allow either additional air into a room during hot days or some air during hot nights when the main window's panes are drawn.
Close-up of the panes of a capiz-shell window panel. In 19th-century Philippine colonial architecture, bahay na bato houses extensively used the capiz-shell window element. . Designed to take advantage of tropical cool breezes, these houses' large windows were built at least a meter high and as wide as five mete
In the Road Traffic Act 1930, the British Parliament required new cars to have safety-glass windshields, [17] but did not specifically require laminated glass. By 1939, 600,000 square feet (56,000 m 2 ) of safety glass manufactured by British Indestructo Glass, Ltd. of London [ 18 ] was being used annually in vehicles produced at the Ford Motor ...
Vinyl siding is plastic exterior siding for houses and small apartment buildings, used for decoration and weatherproofing, imitating wood clapboard, batten board and batten or shakes, and used instead of other materials such as aluminum or fiber cement siding.
"The hottest thing going was the 'porthole' window in the rear side pillar – called 'opera windows' – that came in during the horse and buggy [era]". [5] Opera windows began reappearing in the early 1970s in such vehicles as the 1972 Continental Mark IV. Almost all personal luxury cars would adopt opera windows, usually framed by a vinyl ...
Rear window louvers or rear window blinds (German Heckjalousie or Heckscheibenjalousie) is a type of window blind which can be mounted to the rear window of a car. It is supposed to make the window get less dirty as well as hinder bothersome sunlight from entering through the rear window, but has been criticized by at least one car expert as a ...
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame [1] in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window. [2]
The CARS Program was implemented by the Department of Trade and Industry in order to attract and encourage new car companies to produce vehicles in the Philippines [15] and stimulate demand and impose industry regulations that will restore the country's automotive industry, and make the country a regional automotive manufacturing hub, [16] and ...