Metal garage from the beginning

First, a quick history of metal buildings. During World War II, the Navy Seabees developed metal buildings to be used as lightweight housing and storage units that could be raised, torn down and transported quickly in the battlefield. The design of these Quonset huts, as they came to be called, was modeled after and modified from the semi cylindrical design of the British Nissen hut into an insulated building with wooden linings and floorings. This metal buildings design, intended initially for use strictly as housing for troops and equipment, was itself subsequently modified to allow for more usable space as the buildings were also used as bakeries, isolation wards, dental offices and showers. They became so popular with the troops that some of them even purchased the surplus metal buildings for their personal housing after the war.

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