>Terry asked:
>>...and now does anyone know what a "Draught Excluder" is...? One clue is
>>that it has nothing to do with warm English beer!
>And Dave Etherington responded:
>I may be wrong, but isn't "draught excluder" the old side curtain days
>term for the vent window, or, as they were once referred to in North
>America, "no draft" windows?
> Dave Etherington
> detherin@interlog.com
>I think a draught excluder is a door seal--the sort of thing that has a
>finished plastic or fuzzy surface that covers the raw metal around the
>door opening and has an attached rubber seal that fills the gap between
>the door and the body.
>The equivalent devices on american cars used to call the "windlace." I
>don't recall that personally, of course, because I am much too young. Dad
>told me about windlace because mom told him it was time to have a talk
>with me and he was embarassed to talk about sex.
>Ray
> Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
> Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
> gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
I think you're probably correct, Ray. I know I have seen the reference
somewhere, but I just can't recall where.
And I promise I will never ask anyone about "nearside/offside" again.
Dave Etherington '73 MGB
Toronto Ontario '85 Prelude
detherin@interlog.com
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