HC Deb 09 July 1924 vol 175 cc2276-7W
Major KINDERSLEY

asked the Minister of Health if his attention has been called to a new method of building, which is now being demonstrated at Tonbridge, under which it is claimed that an unskilled man can lay 3,000 bricks a day; whether he has taken steps to test the claims made for this invention and with what results?

Mr. WHEATLEY

I am aware that a new method of laying bricks in cottage construction, in regard to which I have had inquiries made, is being tried at Tonbridge, but the work is not sufficiently advanced to enable any opinion to be expressed upon it.

Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE

asked the Minister of Health whether any estimate has been formed, and in that case what it is, of the number of semi-skilled builders' labourers who, if permitted, could act as bricklayers on plain work?

Mr. WHEATLEY

No information is available on which such an estimate could be based.

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