Gunnison Gazette | 1912-01-19 | Page 5 | The Fixed Size of Bricks

The Fixed Size of Bricks. If bricks were made larger, it would save a great deal of time and labor in building, said a contractor, but ths standard has been set, and any change would be attended by considerable inconvenience. in-convenience. In England when bricks were first made and up to sixty or seventy sev-enty years ago, there was a tax on bricks, and, in order to evade it, the bricks were made of larger ar ! Ir.rger sizes. These were used for cellars and other concealed places. To stop this, fraud, an act was pasred in the reign of George III., fixing ihe legal size of bricks. Early in Queen Victoria's Vic-toria's reign the tax was taken off, and bricks may now be legally made of any size whatever. But any change from the standard size would bring about great inconvenience. All calculations are made for building on this standard stand-ard size, and the London and other building acts have practically fixed it.