Swedish post-war prefabricated houses

5,000 homes were built from kits made in Sweden and assembled on site.

[3] They are an example of the use of "prefabs'" to deal with the post-war housing shortage in the UK.

Scandinavian wooden prefabricated houses had been introduced to Scotland in 1920, with Dundee Corporation building 556, Aberdeen Corporation 76 and from 1937 the Scottish Special Housing Association 350.

[5] Robert Matthew, in 1945 Chief Architect in the Department of Health for Scotland was stranded in Sweden for VE Day.

However he spent the time designing kits for prefabricated houses which conformed to the recommendations of the 1944 UK government report Planning our New Homes.