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"FREEHOLD MAISONETTES"

General view of one block

is supplied as required to be eaten, either privately or in the communal restaurant. Each maisonette has its own gymnasium and sports room, but on the roof there is a communal hall for sports and a 300 yards track. On the roof too is an entertainment hall for the use of the inhabitants. The ordinary narrow entrance lobby of the house is replaced by a vast hall, and a porter is on duty day and night to receive visitors and show them to the lifts. There is the great covered court, on the roof of the underground garages, for tennis. Trees and flowers all around this court, and all along the street in the gardens; in each hanging garden flowers and creepers. "Standardization" here comes into its own. The maisonettes represent a type of house-arrangement which is rational and sensible, without emphasis in any particular direction, but sufficient and practical. By the system of rent purchase the bad old property systems no longer exist.

No actual rent is paid; the tenants take shares in the enterprise; these are payable over a period of twenty years, and the interest represents a very low rent.

Mass-production is even more essential than anywhere else in great enterprises of this kind: low cost. And the mass-production spirit brings with it many unhoped-for benefits at a difficult time: domestic economy.

"FREEHOLD MAISONETTES": ENTRANCE HALL

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