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Categories: Prefabricated houses, Iron and steel buildings, United Kingdom in World War I, Portable buildings and shelters, Barracks
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Nissen hut  Quonset hut  Cwanzit hut  Hoop house  Igloo
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A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure originally for military use, especially as barracks, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. It was designed during the First World War by the Canadian-American-British engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen. Wikipedia
A Quonset hut is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-cylindrical cross-section. Wikipedia
A building shaped like a tube cut in half along the middle and made from corrugated iron sheets Wikipedia Disambiguation
A military structure Wikipedia Disambiguation
Lightweight prefabricated structure Wikidata
A prefabricated building, formerly used by the military, having a semicircular roof of corrugated iron. Wiktionary
A lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semicircular cross section. Wiktionary
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