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- W603721005 abstract "Although the horrors of the slums featured prominently in Lloyd George’s famous “Homes fit for Heroes” speech in the election which closely followed the 1918 Armistice, the long-promised offensive against slum housing had to be delayed for a decade. The immediate post-war priority was the rapid delivery of large numbers of additional dwellings to recover ground lost in the pre-war house building slump and the virtual cessation of domestic construction between 1914 and 1918. Only by meeting the immediate and pressing shortages, it was felt, could unrest be countered. More houses fast were needed in 1919-20 and efforts were concentrated on the construction of standardised two-storey houses on the outskirts of large cities. There, relatively cheap virgin sites could be laid out on the Garden City principles advocated by most housing experts. Here too some of the more promising non-traditional housing systems could be employed to meet the shortages of bricks and construction labour which threatened to torpedo the Government house-building drive. A large number of new systems had been rushed onto the market in the post-war crisis – everything from “flat pack” Scandinavian timber frames to steel systems – most of them claiming to make use of unskilled labour as well as alternative materials. Most proved to be of dubious value: a few were disastrous. The Dorlonco steel-frame with its sprayed concrete skin provided one of Britain’s most spectacular early set-backs in the use of non-traditional systems: while the prefabricated iron-panel house promoted by Lord Weir provoked a major confrontation with the construction unions. Although both steel and concrete feature in practically all forms of construction, the house-building programme which finally got into its stride in both public and private sectors during the second half of the Twenties made relatively little use of either material." @default.
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- W603721005 title "Working Class Flats in the 1930s: Steel versus Concrete" @default.
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