BOMBERS AS HOUSES!
PROVISION IN BRITAIN MEETING ACUTE SHORTAGE British four-engine bembers that helped to win the war now are playing their part in one of Britain’s greatest peacetime problems—housing. Under Supply Ministry auspices two aluminium reclamation plant now are working at high speed ,one in the midlands and the other in Oxfordshire. At these two plants, which between them employ 4000 workers, Britain's surplus warplanes are melted down to make aluminium ingots, which then are delivered to five former warplane factories, now engaged in producing new alminium prefabricated houses.
Cost of production of each of the 54.500 aluminium houses ordered by Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, who is responsible for housing is 520 dollars. The five factories are working to complete their orders by August 1947, and the programme is already ahead of schedule.
The aluminium houses are produced in four sections and, although externally not attractive, they are fitted with every modern convenience. According to a Supply Ministry spokesman, “the housewives are particularly enthusiastic about them.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 98, 24 February 1947, Page 2
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167BOMBERS AS HOUSES! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 98, 24 February 1947, Page 2
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