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Daily Herald Photograph: The Orlit house
National Science and Media Museum
Bradford, United Kingdom
One photograph titled 'Speeding the housing drive' showing the Orlit house being erected in Greenwich. This house was one of ten new types introduced by the government in a drive to build more houses quickly. It uses resin bonded plywood glued to timber studding and a pre-cast concrete structure and pre-cast floor and roof beams.
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- Title: Daily Herald Photograph: The Orlit house
- Date Created: 1946-09-30
- Location: Greenwich, Greenwich borough, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Transcript:SPEEDING THE HOUSING DRIVE. 30.9.1946. As part of the Government's plan to speed the drive to build more houses throughout the country, the Ministry of Health recently announced details of ten new types of houses that are to be produced in large numbers. Most of them are of concrete, using pre-cast methods for floors, walls and roofs, etc. whilst one type uses resinbonded plywood glued to tin timber studding. This picture shows a stage in the erection of one of these types - THE ORLIT, now being erected at a site in Greenwich. The Orlit is made with pre-cast concrete structure with precast floor and roof beams. Housing - Post warHide TranscriptShow Transcript
- Rights: © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
- Maker: Central Press Photos Ltd
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