Solving England's Bricke-Shortage Problem. Bricks of concrete for new buildings. Working on the machine which turns cut 3,000 bricks per hour at the new factory at Chertsey. For many years the shortage of bricks in this country has been a serious drawback to the builder, but now this question is being settled by a firm which has recently established a new works at Thorpe, near Chertsey, Surrey equiped with special machinery for the making of concrete bricks at the rate of 3,000 an hour. March 1