There is a difference between exporting wood and exporting a value added
wooden product like a pre fab timber house. I doubt the wood in such houses
actually came from Britain, the house was just manufactured and shipped from
there. As Ian said in an earlier post all sorts of prefab houses in all
sorts of materials came to Australia from Britain. Those Stirling brought
with him to WA were of light timber with possibly some canvas construction.
Hence their short life span once the white ants found them. White ants just
love softwood timbers.

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From: "david galletti" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2002 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: Pre-fabricated Buildings


> I don't think Britian was exporting wood per se. I suspect there is a grey
> area between the export of completely pre-fabricated buildings and of
> architectural components, e.g. iron frameworks etc.
>
> >===== Original Message From ned heite <[log in to unmask]> =====
> >This is an interesting question. Are you suggesting that Britain was
> >exporting wood products? I had understood that Britain was a net
> >consumer of lumber, not an exporter, from way back. Of course, there
> >are also metal buildings, which Britain exported during World War II.
> >
> >Prefabricated buildings were shipped out of Norway during the
> >nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It's my understanding that
> >Norwegian farmers would build them in their barns over the winter and
> >brokers would buy them for shipment. The result was an immense
> >variety of detail among houses that were supposedly mass produced.
> >Much of the housing in East Iceland was shipped from Norway. Clearly
> >this was a trade from a lumber-surplus area to a lumber-shortage area.
> >
> >Iceland also has huge numbers of Quonset and Nissen huts from World
> >War II. War surplus buildings really revolutionized barn construction
> >in the island.
> >
> >In Mathews County, Virginia, there is a house that supposedly was on
> >its way from the East Coast to California during the gold rush when
> >the ship wrecked in Chesapeake Bay. The house was salvaged and
> >erected, to be known as the California house.
> >
> >
> >At 11:36 AM +0000 2/4/02, david galletti wrote:
> >>Could anyone point me in the direction of information about the export
of
> >>prefabricated buildings from Britain to the colonies in the later 19th
> /early
> >>20th century. I would be particularly intereste if anyone could give me
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