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...over Britain last week, workmen were using a strange new construction material that looked amazingly like sections of a toy Erector set and worked much the same way. The material was the Dexion Slotted Angle, a slotted steel strip bent to form a right angle and designed to be bolted on to other strips ad infinitum. Ever since it went on sale five years ago, it has been used as the frame for everything from waste baskets to cradles for huge water towers. Among its most enthusiastic buyers is the U.S. Air Force, which uses it on air bases...
...Dexion was the answer to one of Comino's questions: How can you build storage racks for paper and type that could be knocked down quickly and reused? By 1947, Comino's experiments had resulted in Dexion (the ancient Greek word for right). As a framing material for construction, Dexion is stronger for its weight than wood, can be stored in 6% of the space needed for two-by-fours, and when bolted together needs no cross beams or supports to hold large weights. Labor savings in construction run as high as 75%. Sales were soon so brisk...
Houses for $850. Though Comino has continually enlarged his London plants, built a new factory in Belgium and licensed Chicago's Acme Steel Co. to manufacture Dexion in the U.S., he has never-been able to catch up with demand. It will take years to exploit Dexion's biggest market, housing. A three-room house, like the experimental models shipped to Greece, could be erected in 160 man hours by inexperienced labor, using tin roofs and asbestos-board walls on a Dexion frame. Comino believes that he could sell it profitably in England for only $850. Using such...
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