§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Works why the 3,000 concrete houses being made at the works of Messrs. Caxton Floors, Limited, at Greenhithe, Kent, are being sent to Castle Bromwich for storage, when they are urgently needed within 10 miles of the factory site in an area which, has suffered badly from enemy action.
§ Mr. TomlinsonComplete Tarran houses are not made at the Greenhithe works of Messrs. Caxton Floors, Limited, but precast concrete wall units only. These units are not stored at Castle Bromwich, Tarran Distribution Centre, but taken there for assembly with other house parts and fitments into complete house sets, and then sent to sites. Tarran houses have been allocated to the Midlands, as the general policy followed in the distribution of temporary houses is to allocate them to, or near, the area in which they are being produced, and to establish a Distribution Centre to assemble the house parts in the same area. All the capacity for the production of wall units required was not available in the Midlands and an order for them was, therefore, given to Messrs. Caxton Moors, Limited, who had the necessary capacity at Greenhithe. Temporary houses allocated to the London Region are assembled and distributed through centres in the Region.