Rodd, Harvey Douglas2015-12-212015-12-212015http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19220The main purpose of this study was to focus attention on an historically important, but somewhat neglected and overlooked, building material and system o f construction which dominated the urban and suburban scene In South Africa a t the turn of the nineteenth century, namely, corrugated Iron and the so-called wood and Iron form of construction.enThesis