The Clay Brick Industry and the Tunnel Kiln

Abstract

An article in the National Institute Economic Review in May 1969 described the first results of an inquiry on which the National Institute has been engaged since 1967, in collaboration with research institutes in a number of other countries, into the diffusion of new technology in industry. Ten techniques were originally studied, of which eight were subsequently selected for investigation in greater depth. These included the use of the shuttleless loom in weaving (discussed in a Review article in August last year) and of the tunnel kiln in brickmaking, with which the present article is concerned.