AIROH prefabricated house and Supermarine Spitfire aeroplane

RIBA Ref No RIBA33510

Country	UK: England
Subject Date	1945
Image Date	1945
View	Exterior
Medium	Photomechanical print
Library Reference	Periodicals
Orientation	Portrait
Colour Info	Black and white
Credit	RIBA Collections
Subject	Houses ; Aeroplanes ; Prefabrication

SOURCE: Architects' Journal, vol. 101, 1945 Apr. 19, p. 290 NOTES: The Aircraft Industries Research Organization on Housing (AIROH) developed a prefabricated house using aluminium alloy for the structural framework and external cladding. It was intended to convert wartime aircraft factories into factories manufacturing these houses.

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