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Show Canada Adopts Housing Plan Assembly Line Technique Is Employed to Overcome Home Shortage. , FORT ERIE, ONT. Canada's answer an-swer to the wartime housing-shortage problem is being rushed to completion com-pletion here in the form of prefabricated prefabri-cated homes that are constructed rapidly, rented reasonably and may tie 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 234 homes is rapidly taking shape on the outskirts out-skirts of this Canadian border community com-munity for the convenience of defense de-fense workers. Just 12 days after the first carload car-load of lumber was delivered eight houses had been erected. Provided lumber is available, the entire group should be finished within three months. Other Projects Laid Out. The Fort Erie project is the farthest far-thest advanced of scores of similar efforts started by Wartime Housing Ltd., to provide. needed housing for the sudden influx of war-industry . workers in various parts of the dominion. do-minion. In the local project Wartime Housing Ltd., took over 380 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 will 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 the project. "Jigs" are provided for the workman, slotted to receive the exact piece of lumber, and carpenters, car-penters, working in pairs, can assemble as-semble any one section in 24 minutes. min-utes. Panels Are Assembled. Wall and partition panels are assembled as-sembled at a shop in an old cattle barn at the Canadian National railway rail-way spur an eighth of a mile away. Siding, roofing and other construction construc-tion are built in the normal way. Prefabricated sections are bolted together. Three-inch insulation is laid under the Norwood pine floors, two-inch rock-wool batts are placed between the walls and a three-quarter-inch insulation board goes over the ceiling. Smaller units will provide a living 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. R. Manock, chairman of a committee in charge of the project, said no rents had as yet been established es-tablished for the new homes. "Nothing can be done until it can be definitely determined what the cost of these homes will be," he said. "However, I expect that the smaller will rent for about $20." |
