ABSTRACT
When Lord Portal introduced the prototype bungalow to Parliament in the Debate on Housing Provision in the House of Lords on 2 May 1944 he estimated that a month would be required to assess the bungalow and to sort out any improvements that might be made or even any economies that might be effected. A further six months would then be required to tool up for production. Allowing for the fact that the war effort had to come first, Lord Portal estimated that once the resources became available it would take a further three months to work up to a full production target of 2000-2500 bungalows per week. He further stated that the Ministry of Health was already dealing with the question of sites for the bungalows.2 This process had been initiated by Lord Portal and reported to Parliament earlier in 1944:
The Government have decided that in the late spring and early summer arrangements will be made for the use by local authorities of plant and machinery as they become available from airfield construction, for the preparation of housing sites, including roads and sewers and, where desired, electricity, water and gas services, sufficient for the maximum number of houses which can be built during the first two years after the war.3
