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		The quonset hut, whose semi-cylindrical form was copied from the British Nissen hut, by the end of the war differed considerably in construction from its prototype.
		This new hut was known as the quonset redesigned hut.
		As the necessity arose for adapting the huts to use as dispensaries, latrines, hospitals, and other special facilities, the details were worked out and checked by actually erecting units in the field at the proving ground, to determine the practicability of the design for field use.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq75-1.htm (765 words)

	Life In England’s Nissen Hut: Few Pleasant Memories Recalled
		To me, a Nissen hut during the winter of 1944-45 was a man-made cave.
		The windows were covered by thick flout curtains, the overhead light bulbs, two to a hut, gave scant lighting.
		If there was anything good to be said about living in a Nissen hut, it was the omission of a mainstay of military routine in the states, the inspections of quarters.
	www.398th.org /FlakNews/Articles/Blakebrough_NissenHut.html (716 words)

	Retrospective Articles
		Nissen's hut (for such it was) immediately became the standard U.S. army building overseas, and with the return to Britain of the sons of the Pilgrim Fathers, great numbers made their appearance on airstrips, hospitals and depots.
		Nissen insisted that provision of a lining was essential and developed the hook bolt to attached the timber purlins.
		Nissen died in March 1930, but his legacy lives on in his hutting, which was used by the Army in the Falklands campaign in 1982 and which can still be seen on farmland and old military bases around the country.
	www.wcremembered.co.uk /retro.html (3777 words)

	Fact Sheets : WWII Nissen Hut : WWII Nissen Hut
		Nissen huts had concrete floors and usually a small, inefficient coke stove for warmth.
		Huts were either connected like the two at the museum, set up end-to-end or built singly.
		Debden had a few Nissen huts, but living quarters there were comfortable brick buildings because the base was permanent.
	www.nationalmuseum.af.mil /factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=923 (2122 words)

	BASE: The Quonset Hut
		The Quonset Hut was used in all theaters of WWII and subsequent conflicts.
		The Quonset Hut's predecessor was the British-designed Nissen Hut, a structure whose arched roof and upright sides required a system of cables and turnbuckles for support.
		The hut's proportions were later modified to increase interior space, resulting in the standardized Quonset or "Steel Arch Rib Hut," a 20' x 48' building weighing 3.5 tons.
	quonsetpoint.artinruins.com /quonset_hut.htm (824 words)

	ODAAT: one day at a time... Fri, 18 Jun 2004
		Nissen Huts, which form the basis of the Italian Chapel, were temporary modular buildings designed for military use.
		Many UK baby boomers will remember school classrooms within Nissen Huts that were long past their advertised sell by date, though properly maintained they had much longer lives than might have been expected when they were erected.
		The American equivalent of the Nissen Hut is the Quonset Hut, a name derived from the Quonset Naval Air Station on Rhode Island, where the prototype was built in 1941.
	www.pishtush.com /camwrangler/z040618.html (538 words)

	Nissen hut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nissen hut is a prefabricated shelter that consists of a sheet of corrugated steel bent into half a cylinder and planted in the ground with its axis horizontal.
		It was developed for the British military by Peter Norman Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, in 1916, and used extensively during the Second World War by both the Commonwealth and U.S. military to facilitate the construction of hundreds of new installations.
		Nissen hut in Port Lincoln, South Australia, in the process of being converted into the John Calvin Presbyterian Church, in the early 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nissen_hut (217 words)

	Quonset Hut building: the timeless design
		Quonset hut building & timeless design was developed out of necessity by the United States during World War II to house troops and supplies.
		Quonset huts, the icons of American can-do ingenuity, can still be seen today although they are not always immediately recognizable.
		At the end of World War II the Quonset hut was not relegated to the scrap heap.
	mama.essortment.com /quonsethutsbui_rems.htm (476 words)

	Life in the Huts
		Hut 16 had been cleared and was used for the junior film on a Saturday night and for films for Geography Society.
		This was a long undivided Nissen hut and we shared it with the second form from one of the other houses.
		Huts 26 to 31, the old Butler boys dorms, had the corridor area enclosed by brickwork, with doors leading out between 27 and 29 and 29 and 31.
	www.wcremembered.co.uk /huts.html (3106 words)

	B24.NET - Wendling WWII B-24 Liberator Bombers
		They lived in the nissen huts that were to be found on every airfield.
		The interiors were dimly lit with one light bulb and a small stove in the center of the hut funished heat.
		An interior shot of a nissen hut which was home to four officers for their tour of duty.
	www.b24.net /wendling/site7.htm (325 words)

	quonset hut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The design was loosely based on the British Nissen hut, a prefab building system developed for british forces during WWI, but was modified to reduce weight and shipping size.
		The prototype hut was 16 feet by 36 feet in plan and framed with arch-rib t section steel members formed to a radius of 8 feet with corrugated steel sheets for siding.The interior had a pressed wood lining, insulation, and a tongue-and-groove wood floor.
		Although temporary in concept, the Qounset huts were well engineered structures, with all the parts acting in unison to create a building of amazing strength.
	www.polarinertia.com /may04/quonset01.htm (309 words)

	Nissen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		a building shaped like a tube cut in half along the middle and made from corrugated iron sheets, see Nissen hut.
		Georg Nikolaus von Nissen (1761–1826), Danish diplomat and writer.
		Rudolf Nissen (1896–1981), German surgeon and inventor of the Nissen fundoplication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nissen (110 words)

	hut - Definition, Synonyms, and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Nissen hut, Quonset hut - a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section
		igloo, iglu - an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
		mudhif - a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained
	www.onpedia.com /dictionary/hut (131 words)

	Come Home To Nissen Dormer For 425 000 (from This is Hampshire)
		After an 18 month renovation that saw the Nissen hut completely refurbished from an ageing metal half-cylinder shed to a unique family home, the couple, who have two grown up daughters, Samantha, and Emma, and a young grandson called Ben, sold their house and moved into the old barracks.
		During the planning process of building their home the family had to stick to the original design of the Nissen hut with its curving frame and roof of corrugated metal, right down to the smallest details.
		During the war the Nissen hut would house soldiers who used the Grange Road gunnery and to keep with the history of the building the Lewis family named their new home Gunners Keep, and were required to keep the same structure and size of the hut for their home.
	www.thisishampshire.net /display.var.969823.0.come_home_to_nissen_dormer_for_425_000.php (556 words)

	"A Building in a Bag" by Edward Willett
		Nissen invented the Nissen Hut during the First World War for much the same reason Crawford and Peter Brewin invented the Concrete Canvas: like refugees, military forces often need to throw up structures quickly.
		The Nissen Hut is a form of prefabricated building--a building whose pieces are manufacture elsewhere, then fastened together on-site.
		The aforementioned Nissen Hut is made out of corrugated iron for that very reason, and almost every farm in Saskatchewan boasts a descendent of the Nissen Hut for one purpose or another.
	www.edwardwillett.com /Columns/concretecanvas.htm (818 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / The Instant Building
		While it is unlikely that Lieutenant Colonel Nissen actually had the Iroquois council lodge in mind, it is a matter of record that Dejongh and Brandenberger were given plans for the Nissen hut at the start of their assignment.
		The Quonset hut came with a one-inch tonguein-groove plywood floor supported on a raised metal framework, wood-fiber insulation between the outer shell and an inner lining of Masonite (pressed wood), and provisions for doors, windows, and chimneys.
		Most of the huts were painted with an olive drab camouflage finish, and from 1943 until the fall of 1944, the 20 came with four-foot overhangs at each end that protected its bulkheads from driving rain and sunlight.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1998/3/1998_3_68.shtml (1697 words)

	No. 1278: Quonset Huts
		The Quonset hut skeleton was a row of semi-circular steel ribs covered with corrugated sheet metal.
		Around 170,000 Quonset huts were produced during the war -- enough to house the combined populations of Portland and Seattle.
		In 1948 the Sacramento Peak observatory was housed in Quonset huts.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1278.htm (546 words)

	Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age
		The Navy had instructed them to comply with only two conditions: the new huts had to be arch shaped, for strength and deflection of shell fragments, and able to be quickly and simply assembled.
		Where Brandenberger's team truly advanced beyond the Nissen hut was in the design of the hut's interior.
		Furthermore, the insulating qualities of Nissen's hut depended solely on the air space remaining between the inner and outer metal sheet.
	www.quonsethuts.org /book/chapter1.htm (859 words)

	Nissen Family Genealogy Forum
		Mathaus/Matthaeus Nissen and Wilhelmina Passarge/Passage or Teke - Lori Widger 3/01/03
		Re: Mathaus/Matthaeus Nissen and Wilhelmina Passarge/Passage or Teke - Ane 7/04/03
		Re: Denmark NISSENS 1862 - Gert Nissen 8/01/99
	genforum.genealogy.com /nissen (1775 words)

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		The Quonset hut bore a close resemblance to the Nissen hut, which the British had developed for World War I and still used in the early part of World War II.
		While it is unlikely that Lieutenant Colonel Nissen actually had the Iroquois council lodge in mind, it is a matter of record that Delongh and Brandenberger were given plans for the Nissen hut at the start of their assignment.
		The Quonset hut came with a one-inch tongue-in-groove plywood floor supported on a raised metal framework, wood-fiber insulation between the outer shell and an inner lining of Masonite (pressed wood), and provisions for doors, windows, and chimneys.
	www.usswhetstone.net /publishnewsletters/archives/publish0700/page2.html (811 words)

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		The Quonset Hut of World War II, was based on the British metal Nissen huts of World War I. It was the U.S. Navy that asked for a new design in 1941, and a factory was built near Quonset Point, Rhode Island, to produce the new, American, design.
		The Quonset Huts rarely came with toilets, which, in typical army fashion, were in separate buildings, along with the showers.
		The largest Quonset Hut was the three hundred, 40 by 100 foot, warehouse models, each of which weighed twenty tons, knocked down and ready for shipping.
	www.strategypage.com /htmw/htcbtsp/articles/20061118.aspx (518 words)

	N is for Nissen Hut :: ABC Riverland SA
		They lived in a Nissen Hut for over a year whilst their new house was being built.
		Built from corrugated iron in a half tube shape, the huts were hot in summer, cold in winter and had no running water or indoor plumbing.
		The Huts were invented by Colonel Nissen, a British mining engineer and were used extensively by the military as accommodation and general storage facilities.
	www.abc.net.au /riverland/stories/s1743331.htm (463 words)

	Jul 00 Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Quonset hut bore a close resemblance to the Nissen hut, which the British had developed for World War I and still used in the early part of World War II.
		While it is unlikely that Lieutenant Colonel Nissen actually had the Iroquois council lodge in mind, it is a matter of record that Delongh and Brandenberger were given plans for the Nissen hut at the start of their assignment.
		The Quonset hut came with a one-inch tongue-in-groove plywood floor supported on a raised metal framework, wood-fiber insulation between the outer shell and an inner lining of Masonite (pressed wood), and provisions for doors, windows, and chimneys.
	usswhetstone.net /publishnewsletters/archives/publish0700/page2.html (811 words)

	The Durham News \| Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The result was a building loosely based on the Nissen hut developed by the British in World War I. There is speculation that the Nissen building was modeled after council huts of the Iroquois Indians.
		The Quonset hut was the U.S. military's answer to the massive need to house people and store war materiel during World War II.
		Up to 170,000 Quonset huts were produced during the war and sold for $1,000 each afterward.
	www.thedurhamnews.com /front/story/2871283p-9327769c.html (990 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From 1941 the Nissen hut began to be used for dispersed site living accommodation.
		It was constructed of lengths of 6 feet wide curved corrugated iron sheets fixed to a steel frame and had a concrete floor.
		The Nissen hut came in widths of 16 feet, 24 feet, and 30 feet and lengths of multiples of 6 feet with the 36 feet by 16 feet being used as standard.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /amphiaraus/page142.html (113 words)

	The Nissen Hut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		To me, a Nissen hut at Glatton during the winter of 1944-45 was a man made cave.
		For example, the four officers of the Don Meyers crew, a typical crew, shared my hut from the time I arrived at Glatton in December until they finished their tour in March.
		To begin with, the Nissen provided cramped and uncomfortable quarters, an atmosphere not conducive to social conversation.
	457thbombgroup.org /New/Recollections/The_Cave/Nissen.html (705 words)

	What are Quonset Huts?
		The British developed a basic metal structure during World War I called a Nissen hut that could be erected quickly by unskilled labor and taken down whenever a regiment moved.
		The original size of military quonset huts was 48 ft. (15 m) long and 20 ft. (6 m) wide with most of the floor space useable.
		Civilians continue to buy the straightforward huts from private manufacturers to install on their farm, orchard, estate, or small business as a storage facility, showroom, garage, temporary family housing, boathouse, or barn.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-are-quonset-huts.htm (347 words)

	The Elder Statesman » Blog Archive » Life in a Quonset Hut
		The Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated steel with a semi-circular shape.
		The design was based on the Nissen hut developed by the British during World War I. The name comes from the site where the first one was manufactured, a Navy station at Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
		The first Quonset hut was produced in 60 days after a government contract was signed with the George A. Fullerton Construction Co. The original design was a 16 by 36 feet structure framed with steel members.
	www.theduncansonline.com /elderstatesman/index.php/2006/11/20/life-in-a-quonset-hut (741 words)

	Hut Glossary - Dictionary definition [define: hut] of hut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hut Glossary - Dictionary definition [define: hut] of hut
		A call used by drill instructors to count cadence during marching; used identically to hut and hup.
		hut n 1: temporary military shelter [syn: army hut, field hut] 2: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hutch, shack, shanty] See also: [army hut] [field hut] [hovel] [hutch] [shack] [shanty]
	www.blogdict.com /glossary/hut.html (159 words)

	ICA Guild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		O'Connell had a hut on Slievenamon and members of the Fethard ICA used to cycle from Fethard to the hut on the mountain.
		After the war, Nissen huts were offered for sale and in 1947 the Fethard Guild of the ICA decided to purchase one for a meeting hall.
		The Nissen hut was a very popular venue for meetings and continued to be used by many organisation until the Tirry Centre was opened.
	www.fethard.com /organ/ICA.html (658 words)

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