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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