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  2. Minibrix - Wikipedia

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    Minibrix were construction kits manufactured from 1935 to 1976 in the UK.Developed in 1935, they enabled children to build their own miniature houses. Like the later and more famous construction toy, Lego, Minibrix consisted primarily of interlocking bricks with moulded studs on the surface, but being invented before the availability of modern plastics they were made of hard rubber which had ...

  3. Building blocks (toy) - Wikipedia

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    In 1949, the Danish company Lego began industrial production of its Automatic Binding Brick, which, however, like its predecessors, was hollow inside and therefore produced very little adhesion. The bricks are an almost identical copy [21] of the 1947 Self-locking Building Bricks of the English brand Kiddicraft by toy developer Hilary Page. [22]

  4. Toy block - Wikipedia

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    Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks were marketed in the 1940s and 1950s. Lego is an interlocking plastic building brick toy line based on the Kiddicraft bricks above. Lego clones imitate Lego brand bricks. Rasti is an Argentine toy interlocking brick. Tente is a Spanish toy interlocking brick. EverBlock Systems is an American brand of ...

  5. Could you live in a retro school bus for under $20K?

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    What was originally a school bus, and still is from the outside looking in, has been transformed in to a tiny home by this Washington state couple. Could you live in a retro school bus for under $20K?

  6. Hilary Page - Wikipedia

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    The bricks also later featured slits on their side that allowed panel-like doors, windows or cards to be inserted. Page patented the basic design, a 2 × 4 studded brick, in 1947. This was later followed by patents for the side slits (1949) and the baseplate (1952), designs featured in exhibits at the Brighton Toy and Model Museum. [12]

  7. Lego clone - Wikipedia

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    Mega Bloks won a case at the EU's top court in 2010 against Lego's trademark registration of a red toy building brick. On September 14, 2010, the European Court of Justice ruled that the 8-peg design of the original Lego brick "merely performs a technical function [and] cannot be registered as a trademark." [11] Best-Lock and Lego bricks compared.

  8. Semi-detached - Wikipedia

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    Semi-detached council house in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire. After the Second World War, there was a chronic shortage of houses. In the short term this was relieved by the construction of prefabricated houses with a ten-year life. The successor was the pre-cast reinforced concrete semi-detached house. Although the frame was concrete the ...

  9. Flemish bond - Wikipedia

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    Flemish bond brickwork on the Ludwell–Paradise House. Flemish bond is a pattern of brickwork that is a common feature in Georgian architecture. The pattern features bricks laid lengthwise (stretchers) alternating with bricks laid with their shorter ends exposed (headers) within the same courses. This decorative pattern can be accented by ...