WORLD ACHIEVEMENT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 9

WORLD ACHIEVEMENT

THE CELLOPHANE HOUSE. You never know what you can do till you try—and in America they have tried to build a house in a fortnight, and have done it. When you are thinking of buying a new house, you send for cardboard models of the prospective dwelling, choose the type you want, and give an order. Then, a few days later, a huge van arrives, and a couple of men jump down and begin laying a cement foundation.

After that all is pretty well plain sailing. They open parcel after parcel in their van—each one neatly wrapped in cellophane, all carefully and accurately numbered and lettered—wooden walls, steel framework, ceilings, floors—all fitting accurately.

There are sinks, plumbing, bath, a shelf with the books you want .(each ill its cellophane wrapping), a refrigerator. and a supply of food to last three days. . . Wonderful indeed it is what they can do in America!

For something like £'7oo ihc pur- 1 chaser of one of these ready-made j houses—put up where you wish—can have an establishment within a fort- I niglit. The building firm keeps thou- | sands of parts in stock, assembling them on the spot much as the immer- j ous parts of a car are assembled in ; the works, and the result, though ii j may not be finite what-an old Eng- 1 lisli squire would oxp'oet to find if lie 1 bought a house, is certainly eminent- ; Iv satisfactory.

Tt was President Roosevelt's mother | who laid the “foundation stone” of I one of these houses in New A ork— j by taking the cellophane off the first! parcel!—(L).