Wrinkly Tin: The Story of Corrugated Iron

From British factories, through Kiwi pioneers, to corrugated iron’s rebirth as an architectural fashion material, here is the story and romance of how the black sand on our beaches became the wrinkly tin on our homes. If it’s not cladding roofs and walls, corrugated iron turns up on aircraft, army tanks, artworks, baches, band rotundas, barbecues, barns, boatsheds, canoes, chimneys, chookhouses, churches, dog kennels, dunnies, farm sheds, fences, goathouses, grain silos, haystacks, huts, long-drops, pigpens, sculptures, shearing sheds, shower linings, stables, toboggans, tree-huts, storage buildings, verandahs and water tanks … New Zealand without corrugated iron ~ it’s unthinkable! About the Author First published 2005. Stuart Thomson has been associated with corrugated iron most of his life, as a plumber, sheetmetal worker, roofer, manufacturer, development engineer and building consultant. He has corrugated with Sir Edmund Hillary in Nepal, investigated cyclone damage in the Pacific, written the industry’s code of practice ~ and all the while collected fascinating facts and stories (and written light-hearted verse) about this versatile, colourful New Zealand icon.