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Coventry housing - house type plans, c1940

 Item
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/4/1

Scope and Contents

6 copy plans showing different house types for Coventry.

3 plans (22cm x 76cm) are by housing director AF Underhill, show small scale floor plans, reduced from 8 inches = 1 foot scale, for 3 different houses and are hand labelled Type A, Type B and Type C.

3 plans (71cm x 71cm) are by city architect Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, show complete plans for the "three bedroom type" house at 1/8th and 1/12th scale. One of the floor plans was drafted by Percy Johnson-Marshall.

Dates

  • Creation: c1940

Creator

Language of Materials

This material is in English

Physical Description

6 plans

Conditions Governing Access

This material is unrestricted.

Extent

From the Sub-Fonds: 0.3 metres

Physical Description

6 plans

Archivist's Note

None

Sarah Higgins 29 October 2003

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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