The Legendary 1940’s Arcon Temporary Bungalow
Arcon MkV temporary prefabricated houses were produced only as bungalows. They have shallow pitch gable roofs covered with profiled asbestos cement sheets and a very distinguishable curved apex ridge. Externally,…
Riley Steel Framed House
The Riley house is a metal framed system of dwellings, first constructed in the mid-1940s by Riley Constructional Systems, a trading name of Cawood, Wharton and Co Ltd. The original ‘Cawood’…
The Airoh – Temporary Aluminium Bungalow
The Aluminium Bungalow was the most highly prefabricated house in the Temporary Housing Programme. Production of complete bungalows was concentrated in five large factories, well distributed over the country, and assembly…
Livett-Cartwright Steel Framed House
Livett-Cartwright Steel Framed House Manufacturer: N B Bell & Co. LtdArchitect/Designer: –Engineer: – AKA: Bell-Livett. Index, Leeds CorporationNumber Built: 2500Period Built:1948-56 BACKGROUND AND IDENTIFICATION Between 1944 and 1947 various non-traditional house construction systems were assessed by the Interdepartmental Committee…
British Iron & Steel Federation BISF House
Prior to the end of WWII, the British Iron & Steel Federation worked closely with Architect Frederick Gibberd & Engineer Donovan Lee, to develop a steel framed prototype house that…
MOHLG 5M Steel Framed House
The 5M steel framed house is constructed from a lightweight composite steel-and-timber-framed system which was designed by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government Research and Development Group, otherwise referred to as M.O.H.L.G….