Show C Canada na a A Adopts opts Housing Plan Assembly Line Technique Is Employed to Overcome H Home me Shortage FORT E ERIE I ONT Canadas Canada's Canada's Canadas answer answer an nn- to the wartime housing short age problem is being rushed to completion completion completion com com- here in the form of prefabricated prefabricated homes that are constructed rapidly rented reasonably and may maybe maybe maybe be removed when emergency need for them ends In a manner similar to the rising of boom towns in the old West years ago a wartime village of homes is rapidly taking aking shape on the outskirts outskirts out out- skirts of this Canadian b border rd r community community community com com- for the convenience of defense defense defense de de- workers Just 12 days after the first carload carload car car- load of lumber was delivered eight houses had been erected l Provided lumber is is available the entire group should be finished within three months Other other Projects Laid Out The Fort Erie project is the farthest farthest farthest far far- advanced of scores of similar efforts started by Wartime Housing Ltd to provide needed housing for forthe forthe forthe the sudden influx of war industry workers in various parts of the do do- minion In the local project Wartime Housing Ltd took over lots from Fort Erie and will retain title to them at least until the end of the emergency At that time if local home owners find it too difficult to rent their homes the new units willbe will willbe willbe be dismantled and stored or shipped elsewhere Foundations for the houses consist of large logs stripped of bark and treated with creosote Floor joists roofs and gables are fabricated at atthe atthe atthe the project Jigs are provided for foi the workman slotted to receive the exact piece of lumber and carpenters carpenters car car- penters working in pairs can assemble assemble assemble as as- any anyone one section in 24 24 minutes min min- utes Panels Are Assembled Wall and partition panels are assembled assembled assembled as as- at a shop in an old cattle barn at atthe the Canadian National railway railway railway rail rail- way spur an eighth of a mile away Siding roofing and other construe construe- tion are built in the normal way Prefabricated sections are bolted together Three inch insulation is laid under the Norwood pine floors two-inch two wool rock-wool batts catts are placed between the walls and a three inch ter-inch insulation board goes over the ceiling Smaller units will provide a living living liv liv- ing room two bedrooms a kitchen and a bathroom In the larger units downstairs rooms will be slightly larger The type of heating unit will be up to the tenant W W. R. R Manock chairman of a committee in charge of the project said no rents had as yet been established established es es- es for the new now homes |