A Little History About Ford Glass

Starting in 1928, all Ford “Safety Glass was bugged” with a trademark as well as the date of manufacture of the glass. In most instances, glazing used for windshields was different than that used for side and rear glass and, as such, was marked accordingly. The “dating” of the glass has lead to the identification of the approximate build period of the vehicle and/or, in some instances, the exclusion of certain build periods. Improperly dated glazing or glazing without “bugging” has lead to substantial point deductions at many point judged concourses.

The script logo always incorporated the month and year on the outside ends of the oval first in numbers and beginning in 1941 coded as letters. A’ being one, or January, B’ being two, or February, and so on. Under the oval were further identifying markings. Initially, only a letter was used to indicate the manufacturer, in this case F’ indicated Ford and P stood for Pittsburgh Plate Glass. After 1937, AS-F-S or AS-F-WS was used to indicate the glass met American Standards of manufacture. These additional designators delineated American Standard – Ford, as the manufacturer, and Standard, which would be a side glass. The WS stood for windshield and was a higher quality having minimal waviness, distortion and/or imperfections.