Windscreen? ....literally

Anybody seen anything like this before? I found it while surfing the net.

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British sports cars in the pre-war days (WWII, not Iraq) often had these windscreens. My memory is fading a bit, but I believe they were call mfg'd by Brooklands. They often replaced the conventional windscreens (proper British term for a windshield) and they could be folded (goggles then worn) and they reduced drag (by approx. .001%...<smiling>)

 

Brooklands windscreens were in many cases used exclusively on sporting machinery of all kinds as well as replacements. They are still available in fact:
http://www.minimania.com/web/Item/brooklands/invDetail.cfm

 

That shape, in glass or Perspex, was used on the vintage Racecars on the Brooklands track before WW2. Thus they were called Brooklands windscreens.
Actually making them out of opaque SCREEN seems to be taking the name just a bit too literal.

Seeing as British fenders are called "Wings"....I'm wondering if this car is full feathered...I mean, FENDERED!

 

This may have been the choice for drivers worried about shattering glass in the days before tempered/laminated.

 

I have seen brooklands style little wind shields made with glass before. The brass screen to look through is what cought my attention. I had never seen that before.