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BUILDING A WARTIME NISSEN HUT RARE 1916 FOOTAGE

Lt Col Peter Norman Nissen the Inventor of the Nissen Hut, was born in the USA in on the 6th August 1871. He attended Trinity College, North Carolina leaving in 1891. In 1910 at age 39 he collected all the cash he could get including a loan on his life assurance and set out for England with his wife Louisa and his daughter Betty and landed with only a few pounds in his pocket. However, in January 1915 he became a temporary lieutenant in the 12th Battalion of the Sherword Foresters. Lt Col Nissen was joined by a draftsman corporal Donger, who wrote great recollections of working with Peter Nissen. Together they produced the working drawings and instructions as to how to put up the hut and how to pack the hut into a standard Army truck with a capacity of three tons. As the hut weighed 2 tons, it just needed the drawings to show that the hut would fit into one of these standard trucks. 100,000 huts were constructed ,10,000 hospital versions were made to house 240,000 beds. The normal time to erect a hut with 6 men was 4 hours and the record is 1 hour 27 mins. For the design of the Nissen Hut Peter Nissen was given the DSO and promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Nissen tried to commercialise his hut idea after the war but unfortunately died of pneumonia in 1930 the age of 58. The hut was revived in the second world war and used extensively. It was even used in the Falklands war. The Amercans invented their own version of he Nissen Hut for the second world war called the Quonset Hut. With Thanks to The Imperial War Museum. Many Thanks also to Howard Cutler http://lcars.org.uk/Holmsley.htm    • BUILDING A  WARTIME NISSEN HUT  RARE 1916 ...