Bob,
Two comments in response to your post. Being a government project,
Purington was probably the "low cost" bidder. Transportation was
probably another bid.
Used brick is new buildings is quite common. My home in a Kansas City
suburb has used brick on the front face and the entire fireplace,
including the chimminy, is made of the same used brick. When I inquired
where the brick came from while the house was under construction, I was
told that it had been part of an old downtown KC building. I don't
recall seeing a reference to the brick manufacturer, but the style does
not look like Purington.
Bill Barber
On Saturday, March 12, 2005, at 03:11 AM, CBQ@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:24:48 -0600
> From: Bob Webber <zephyr1@ameritech.net>
> Subject: Re: Re: Purington Pavers
>
> Did you see on one of the links the number of bricks used for the
> defence
> plant in Indiana? 22 million?!? In 146 days. They indicate 7-8 cars
> per
> night were filled and sent. Now, let's see. That's a total of about
> 1168
> cars. That's about 18,836 bricks per car. Which is about 169,520
> pounds
> or roughly 84 tons per car. It seems like 22 million bricks would
> take a
> heck of a lot more cars than that! Of course, you would also have the
> wood, glass, metal, piping, electrical, mortar, cement, etc. to build
> it,
> but when you break it down, it some how loses the hugeness of the
> original
> number.
>
> But then.. one has to ask, based on your note - why Purlington for a
> plant
> in Southern Indiana - surely there were plants closer to the building
> site. And, why brick? Yes it was a munitions works, but seems like a
> lot
> of travel in the days of "is this trip necessary".
>
> I remember reading an article while living in Texas about the used
> brick
> industry in the Chicago area where buildings were being bought solely
> for
> the bricks , being torn down, sent by barge (?!) down to the South for
> use
> in homes for that "old brick" feel. Have to wonder how many have
> Purlingtons in them!
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