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Feedback: Operation Breakthrough, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, A Documentary of Transportation and Handling Systems, Volume 3



Report Acceptance Date: 
August 1974 (169 pages)
Posted Date:   
June 3, 2022



An Operation Breakthrough Feedback Report, this historic publication describes how the housing developed during the demonstration was packaged, transported from the factory where it was produced, unloaded, and erected at its destination. The report details both highway and rail transport options. Operation Breakthrough was a HUD demonstration project to test innovative building materials and methods for the rapid production of housing at volume, beginning in 1969.


This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.