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pre-fab


a portable classroom. Compare demountable, musset hut, portable, relocatable, silver bullet1, terrapin unit, transportable.


Contributor's comments: In Latrobe Valley in 50s the word pre-fab denoted a school building officially known as a Bristol Hut - two classrooms and a small office/storeroom entered from a common door, aluminium clad, windows both sides extending to the ceiling and distinguishing tapered sun visors mounted vertically between the windows.