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| Nissen Huts at Cultybraggan Camp 21, Comrie, Scotland. |
We are a small team of volunteers who have come together to create The Nissen World Record Attempt at Cultybraggan Camp 21 in Comrie, Scotland, UK of the half cylindrical corrugated steel war hut designed by Peter Norman Nissen in April 1916. 2016 marking 100 years since the design came into manufacture!
The current world record for erecting a hut is 1 hour and 27 minutes. We plan to put up a new hut in under this time to become the new world record holders to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Nissen Hut in production and to inspire more people to keep history living at our local camp.
History of the Nissen Hut
The Nissen hut designed by mining engineer and inventor Peter Norman Nissen in who was part of the 29th company of Royal Engineers of the British army in April 1916 (World War I). The half cylindrical corrugated steel huts needed to be portable and economical due to wartime shortages which allowed them to be packed in a standard Army wagon and erected by six men in four hours.
The first huts were put into production in August 1916 and at least 100,000 were produced in World War I. Patents of the hut were taken out in the United States, Australia,South Africa and Canada. Nissen receive around £13,000 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order but didn't receive royalties until after the war and only for the sale of huts not the huts made during the war.
Huts waned between wars but they still live on, alot of them were used for a wide range of functions from churches, bomb stores and after the wars as accommodation, greenhouses etc.
Cultybraggan Camp 21 is one of the three best preserved purpose-built WWII prisoner of war camps in Britain. Huts 19, 20 and 44-46 were category A listed and Huts 1-3,21,29-39, and 47-57 category B listed by Historic Scotland as national significance in 2006.
::OUR TEAM::
Chairman
Mark Lynch
Mark Lynch
Volunteer Coordinator
Craig Walker
Marketing / Fundraising
Holly Campbell-Smith
Holly Campbell-Smith
