HOUSES FROM AMERICA
TEMPORARY BUILDINGS fOR BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 23. The Minister of Works, Mr Duncan Sand.vs, in a statement on housing, in the i-louse of Commons, announced a partial change of policy from temporary to permanent house building and said America would send 30,000 temporary bouses to Britain this year. Much of the factory capacity and labour upon which the original plans were based could trot yet be released from munitions production, and the choice of design was restricted by shortages of material. The Government bad decided in the interests of general economy and general planning to switch over as soon as practicable to the construction of permanent dwellings on normal sites. Until the permanent programme could be got under way. the Government would press forward with the manufacture, of temporary bungalows to the fullest possible extent.
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Evening Star, Issue 25419, 26 February 1945, Page 8
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141HOUSES FROM AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 25419, 26 February 1945, Page 8
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