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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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