SOMETHING NEW IN PLASTIC HOUSES
(Sneeial CorresDondent.)
Received Wednesdav, 7 p.m. LONDOX, Alav 22. A new use is being found for plastics in Germauy. It is reported their designers and industrialists are planning the export of prefabrieated houses made from plastics. Tlie houses, of which individual designs are being inoduced for Britain, United Stales, iuissia and France, ean be put up in a matter of hours l)y unskilled labour. They are eheap and on mass production lines probably cost about £110 each. Every section is eomplete with plastic windows, electric wiring and lieating pipes which required only to be jointed to adjoiryng sectiona. Each section has "creases" to take up exponsion or contraction caused by the weather.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1946, Page 5
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