Nissen Steelwork
of Hoddesdon
1918 Company founded by Peter Norman Nissen
1927 Private company - presumably Nissen Buildings Ltd
1928 With Peter Norman Nissen, Nissen Buildings patented "Improvements in and relating to roofs for portable buildings"
1937 Constructional engineers.[1]
1939 Nissen Buildings Ltd - see Aircraft Industry Suppliers
WWII Nissen Buildings Ltd. waived its patent rights for wartime production. Similar-shaped hut types were developed as well, notably the Romney hut in the UK and the Quonset hut in the United States. Accounts of life in the hut generally were not positive. Huts in the United Kingdom were frequently seen as cold and draughty, while those in the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific were seen as stuffy and humid.
1943 Captain W. H. Folkes, managing director of Nissen Buildings Ltd, died; his replacement was H. G. Jordan OBE, BSc[2]
1945 The government turned down the company's proposal for large scale conversion of Nissen huts into homes; the company then concentrated on commercial construction work[3]
1945 Constructed reinforced concrete bunker for Robert Cort and Son[4]
1947 Nissen Buildings Ltd were structural engineers and civil engineering contractors; built permanent brick houses for Llanelly council[5]; had constructed foundations for steel furnace gas producer plant.[6]
1961 Nissen Steelwork Ltd - Structural engineers, specialising in patent steel buildings. 340 employees.[7]
1977 Nissen Steelwork was removed from the register of companies[8]
2015 Nissen Buildings Ltd provided official documents to the registrar[9]
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Nissen Buildings