MASS PRODUCTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9799, 8 May 1924, Page 6

MASS PRODUCTION.

HOUSES AT A COST OF £275

TEX THOUSAND A MONTH

Plans to erect . wooden “mass-pro-duction” houses, delivered “ready to erect” in Great Britain, for approxp mutely £275 each, and at the rate of 10,000 a month, aro being considered by the Ministry lor Health. ‘ Tho Alexander Lumber Company of the United States and Canada, from whom the suggestion comes, claim that what, tha Kora car is to the motoring world, the Alexander “lumber house” will be to the British building problem. The houses, which are of two storeys, are built in pairs, and each contains a living room, kitchen, bathroom and three bedrooms. It is claimed that they are as safe from fire as .brick houses, and that they will not only last as long, but that they are cooler in summer and drier in winter. The cost of foundations and sewering should not exceed £IOO per house, which would bring tho total cost to £375 each house. The Alexander lumber houses have a frame of pitch-pine, which hardens with age. The walls, which are hollow, are finished internally with fireresisting plaster panels, and externally with cement stucco or red cedar “siding.”