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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 .
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.
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Plaque on the memorial monument. Now a residential housing estate of some 550 plus homes located to the south of Braintree town in Essex, England, it was formerly the 8th [1] Army air force military hospital, built in the grounds of "White Court" which was previously a large detached house standing in its own grounds on London Road, originally known as "Oaklands".
English: Meldreth: Nissen huts There are six of these remarkably well maintained large nissen huts in a small industrial estate off Station Road. They certainly date from the Second World War as they are shown as a block of six on the Ordnance Survey's map of 1950.
After the war a number of Nissen huts were used to re-home local families, these being replaced by 95 new houses by Basingstoke Rural District Council in the early 1950s. [2] At the same time the United States Air Force (USAF) built new housing alongside this development, doubling the size of the estate. The base closed in 1992 and the USAF ...
Temporary Supply Dump in Reykjavik 1941 Building Nissen Huts in a gale 1942 Iceland was an important stepping stone between Europe and the New World in North America. Hitler several times toyed with the idea of a descent upon the island and laid preliminary plans for it; but to forestall such a move British troops, soon joined by a Canadian ...
The camp facilities were expanded during World War II, with two parts of the camp known as "Chocolate City", due to the brown-coloured oiled timber weatherboard buildings in that part of the camp and "Silver City", due to corrugated iron Nissen huts built in that part of the camp. Citizens Military Force units were also trained at the camp ...