At 11:25 AM +0000 2/5/02, david galletti wrote:
>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.

Okay. Britain exported lots of architectural hardware elements.
Maybe you need to go to the receiving areas' libraries and look for
trade catalogues. I recall many years ago when I was researching
pressed tinplate architectural elements, you caould buy the internal
and external skins of building elements, which fit together in a
modular fashion we know quite well today.  In the case of tinplate,
you could put together a building from the catalogue.
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