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A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a 210° portion of a cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen .
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Royal Engineers, in front of a Nissen hut in 1917 Two Nissen stamps, installed c. 1909 at the Sound Democrat Mill near Silverton, Colorado Nissen huts at Altcar Training Camp Peter Norman Nissen , DSO (6 August 1871 – 2 March 1930), was a Canadian - American - British mining engineer, inventor and army officer.
Several Nissen huts were erected in the woods to the west of the Hall and the concrete bases of several of them are still there (in 2019) together with small amounts of the corrugated iron which covered them, although some concrete was removed in the 1980s because it was causing vegetation and trees to die. In the woods to the SW of the house ...
At the outbreak of World War II, the British military developed a series of prefabricated huts to supplement the World-War-I-era Nissen hut.The Iris hut was one of these, a medium-scale hut of 35 feet (11 m) span and from 60 feet (18 m) to 96 feet (29 m) in length, with bays of 4 feet (1.2 m) sectional length able to be added as required.
It then came under the authority of the Special Service Brigade. [7] By this time a drill square had been laid down and pasture within the vicinity of the house had been replaced by asphalt. Nissen huts now stood within the grounds around the drill square. These huts contained accommodation for men, housing between 25 and 40, dining halls, and ...
NCOs and other ranks were encamped in Nissen huts erected within the wood. The facilities included a hospital in an extended Nissen hut. [1] Most of the wood north of Livery Track was used. Some areas of the wood were laid to gravel to facilitate heavy vehicles, and Livery Track was widened and laid with macadam.
Springtown Camp was built by the United States Navy during World War II and consisted of 302 corrugated iron Nissen huts and a number of other temporary buildings. [1] It was sited in the western outskirts of the city, off the Buncrana Road, in an area now redeveloped as an industrial estate, and was part of the US Navy's "Base One Europe", accommodating arriving Marines and Navy personnel.