NOW, Volume 10, Number 26, November 9, 1945 Page: 3
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the doors and windows wherever
they are required by pegging metal
frames into the holes which are con-
veniently located all over the walls
of the forms.
HE Tournalayer is not at present
intended for highway travel. It can
be, however, unbolted for transporta-
tion to a housing area. There it could
park in a convenient central location.
Tourna-transit-mixers, which are in
R. G. LeTourneau's mind, although
not yet on the drawing boards,
equipped with extra high dumping
facilities, can bring concrete from
the batch plant and pour 30 cubic
yards of concrete - about 5 loads -
at a cost of about $10 a yard in place.
When the house is poured and the
concrete is sufficiently set for lifting
it off the inside form and traveling,
the Tournalayer will waddle off with
it to the homesite.
The first LeTourneau prefabri-
cated concrete houses were of a sort
of intersecting tunnel design, whichHaving poured the concrete for the foundation, walls and partition,
the roof and spreads it as they would a concrete walk or street.the concrete crew now pours
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Poured and set sufficiently firm to travel, the first Tournalaid house starts
its journey from the Vicksburg factory to the homesite in the town ofLeTourneau, which is across the railroad tracks and up a sizable incline.
Inside form is left behind to be prepared for next pouring.
the designer referred to as cloverleaf,
but most of the factory force called
igloo. Curved walls presented prob-
lems. Appearance, to speak moder-
ately, was a bit unusual. The Tourna-
laid house, however, is conventional
in shape and with the form or forms
now used can be poured in a wide
variety of styles, and for a mult itude
of floor plans.
But, as already remarked, there are
no immediate plans for marketing
Tournalaid houses and undoubtedly
there will be considerable further de-
velopment before any such plans will
be made. In the meantime, Vicks-
burg plant is going to get some Tour-
nalaid homes, offices and factory
buildings.3
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R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. NOW, Volume 10, Number 26, November 9, 1945, periodical, November 9, 1945; Peoria, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1526474/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library.