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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.
Quonset huts at Point Mugu, California, in 1946 with Laguna Peak in the background. A Quonset hut / ˈ k w ɒ n s ɪ t / is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-circular cross-section. The design was developed in the United States based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I.
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 ...
Twynham hut at RAF El Adem in 1969. The Twynham hut was developed by the British War Office in 1959 as a replacement for the Nissen hut which was first used in 1916. It was constructed of individual 8-foot (2.4 m) bays which made the roof stronger than that of its predecessor. Huts are known to have been constructed in lengths between 16 feet ...
Two further refurbished Nissen Huts are present on the west of original airbase and house the Boxted Airfield Museum. A portion of the original main runway remains in use as a grass airstrip (04/22). A memorial to the pilots and crews who flew from RAF Boxted is located on the northernmost end of the original runway where it meets Park Lane.