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...
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Jamesway hut – a variation of a Nissen hut Romney hut – a variation of a Nissen hut Quonset hut – a type of Nissen hut of lightweight prefabricated structure...
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cross-section. The design was developed in the United States based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I. Hundreds of thousands were...
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developed the Nissen hut prefabricated shelter during the First World War. Peter Nissen was born in the United States. His father, Georg Herman Nissen, had emigrated...
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mythology, see Tomte a Nissen hut, a building shaped like a tube cut in half along the middle and made from corrugated iron sheets the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem...
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series of prefabricated huts to supplement the World-War-I-era Nissen hut. The Iris hut was one of these, a medium-scale hut of 35 feet (11 m) span and...
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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...
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Balgownie Migrant Workers Hostel (category Quonset huts)
needed] The first Nissen Hut was designed by Canadian Lieutenant Colonel Peter Norman Nissen in 1916. In World War II the Nissen Hut design was modified...
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Norfolk Tank Museum (section Nissen Hut Display)
The Norfolk Tank Museum (previously Turrets and Tracks) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles in Norfolk, East England. It is located just outside...
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Hansib. ISBN 1-870518-54-3. McCosh, F. (1997). Nissen of the Huts: A biography of Lt Col. Peter Nissen, DSO. Bourne End: B D Publishing. p. 82-108. Custer...
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