Davey

Apart from Iain Stuart and Mary Beaudry's walk down memory lane, the
best overview is:

Herbert, Gilbert 1978
Pioneers of Prefabrication: the British contribution to the nineteenth
century [presumably their only one]
John Hopkins University Press

On the subject of timber buildings, the British did create and export
entire pre-fabs, both modular with interchangeable components [eg
Manning Houses] and one-offs [a complete house / church / rajah's palace
in a box] but the most common imports to Australia appear to have been
produced in Southeast Asia.  These were given the generic name of
'Singapore houses' and are identifiable, in part, by the use of tropical
timbers like meranti.

Denis