Tarran Industries
Tarran created his company from scratch, and it eventually employed 10,000 people. Working under contract to the Ministry of Defence, the company also constructed airfields and coastal defences, in addition to its civil contracts.
The company designed and made prefabricated houses during World War II, almost 20,000 of which were erected during the latter years of, and immediately after, the war under the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944.
Read more about this topic: Robert Greenwood Tarran
Famous quotes containing the word industries:
“All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)