 Many of the farmers in Hvidovre saw it as an opportunity to make a substantial profit by selling their land off in small lots.3,226 out of the 3,899 lots that existed in Hvidovre in 1924 had been sold off since 1918.The buyers were typically workers from Copenhagen and the houses often built out of Chevrolet or Ford boxes, which had been used in the shipping of car parts from America.