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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



racks employed by the French, while advisable for 

 housing troops, do not have sufficient window space for 

 hospital or recreation purpose. Nor are many of them 

 so constructed as to be easily heated for ordinary living 

 purposes. 



So the Construction Bureau architects designed a 

 new design of semi-portable barrack to meets its own 

 needs. It is built in panels, has double walls, a floor 

 and a ceiling, and window space enough to make it prac- 

 tically a sun parlor. When properly erected it is prac- 

 tically a permanent building although it can, if neces- 

 sary, be taken apart and moved to another site. Its 

 standard dimensions are 6 x 30 metres (20 x 100 feet), 

 but it can be lengthened or shortened to any practicable 



them and have a barrack. To facilitate this, an in- 

 genious system of numbering parts was also devised 

 which enables the quick determination of the number of 

 parts necessary to form a complete barrack. 



This barrack is now well known over most of France. 

 The French call it the "Baraque A. R. C" They seem 

 to think it a fine barrack and call it "Joli" which does 

 not mean what it does in English. 



When the designing of this barrack was complete, 

 it was found that all large firms specializing in this line 

 of manufacture were fully occupied with their work for 

 the French and other branches of the American army, 

 but an American firm claiming to have good French 

 connections agreed to take the first contract for 100 of 



RED CROSS CONSTRUCTION WORK AT AN AMERICAN AVIATION CAMP IN FRANCE 



This shows the shower baths given to one of the camps by the American Red Cross being put up. The building is of the "demontable" type, 

 a wooden structure built of panels supported on trussed framework. On the right is seen the machine for heating the water. 



dimensions by adding or leaving out side wall, floor and 

 roof panels. Partitions can be installfid if necessary and 

 all sorts of interior arrangements are therefore possible. 

 Like most of these barracks its roof is supported by 

 trusses rather than by a complete framework such as 

 would probably be used in strictly American practice 

 for its designers admittedly are indebted to the French 

 for many of the ideas involved. It is designed to have 

 the complete barrack an assembly of a number of abso- 

 lutely standardized parts like a cheap modern automo- 

 bile so that we might take a series of parts from half 

 a dozen plants not under the same management, assemble 



these barracks. Practically all of it they turned over 

 to a large French engineering firm. They had facilities 

 for only part of the work and so further sub-contracted 

 a large part of it to other smaller firms scattered all over 

 France. In this way a new line of firms, not before 

 engaged in barrack manufacture, were brought into use 

 and pressure taken off those who had all they could do 

 to supply the regular demand of the French army. 



At this point the work of supervising the manufacture 

 of these barracks was turned over to the writer. In the 

 months since, it has brought me into the forest regions 

 of France and into touch with its timber industries, and 



