A VERY OLD IDEA.
PREFABRICATED BUILDINGS. Everybody knows that “prefabricated” houses of various kinds will become temporary homes for thousands in the near future. Few people, however, know that prefabricated buildings were known as far back as 1481, says a writer in the “Times” Educational Supplement. In that year King John of Portugal began the practice of sending out trading ships equipped with special prefabricated forts as protection against the natives with whom they dealt. One of these forts, rebuilt and modernised, is actually still in use to-day at Elinina Castle, in the Gold Coast, beihg at present tbe home of some recruits of the W6St African Air Corps.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 269, 24 August 1945, Page 4
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