Liddell hut
The Liddell hut was a prefabricated dormitory, of which thousands were manufactured during the First World War.[1] Its inventor was one Lt. Col Guy Liddell (1868–1954),[2] of Palmers Green House, Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton, Somerset.[3]
The patent reads:
438,911. Portable huts. Liddell, G., Aug. 30, 1934, No. 25020. [Class 20 (i)] A collapsable [sic] portable hut comprises gabled end-walls of hinged panels, side-walls longitudinally-divided, roofpanels and roofcap, and rigid seats or bunks extending along the sidewalls and hinged to the lower portions thereof. The panels are formed of wooden frameworks [b] and composition board, and in the end-walls are hinged together by hinges [c], one panel in one wall constituting a door [d], and one panel in the other wall constituting a window [f], beneath which is hinged a table [g]. The end-walls are bolted to the side-walls by means of bolts and wing-nuts [m], and the side-walls are each formed in two portions, the lower portion [j] being hinged to the bunk framework [u] and the upper portion is adapted to stand on the lower portion. The bunks [u] are provided with claws [v] adapted to be received in slots provided in the framing of the end-walls, and are further supported by struts [w] hinged to the bunks and adapted to be turned down to contact with the floor of the hut. The roof, Fig. 4, is formed by inclined roof panels [n] and a roof cap [o], each provided with pin fittings [t] to enter holes in the hut frame members.[3]
Liddell was also known as a good amateur portrait painter.[2]
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[edit]- ↑ "Lives Saved by Secret Code". Daily Standard (Brisbane). No. 6140. Queensland, Australia. 20 September 1932. p. 7. Retrieved 11 August 2026 – via National Library of Australia. The lurid title refers not to the building but to a different invention by one J. C. F. Davidson of the British Admiralty.
- 1 2 "Guy Liddell (1868–1954)". Art Detective via ART UK. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- 1 2 "A new or improved portable sleeping hut". Google patents. Retrieved 11 August 2026.