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The secondary staircase, toilets, utility areas, stores, and penthouse kitchen are tiled with mosaic, while the bed- rooms. dining-cum-lounge in the pent- house are finished with Siamese teak parquet and the basement floors have a granolithic finish. The air-condi- tioning plant and service rooms are cement rendered.
The soffit to the podium over the public footway is of fluted aluminium and the ceilings over the banking hall and mezzanine floor are of Siamese teak. Part of the ceiling in the dining- cum-lounge of the penthouse is also finished with Siamese teak, wax polished.
Illuminated ceilings accentuate the entrance foyer, manager's and com- pradore's offices, part of the accounts department and lift halls. The offices have a diamond pattern accoustic wood fibre ceiling. With the excep- tion of the safe deposit room, which has an Acousti-tex ceiling, the rest of the ceilings in the building are plaster- ed and painted.
Sub-contractors and suppliers
Piling and basement work
Wing Co. Tiling and marble Sim Lim Co.
(M) Ltd.
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Lifts and aluminium work
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The
Diethelm & Co. Ltd.
China Engineers Ltd.
Partitions
Patio of the penthouse
which is floored in broken marble
Security equipment and Air condition-
ing installation
(Malaysia) Ltd.
Sanitary installation
Trading Co.
Sime Darby
Siah Brothers
Water pressure system and pump set
Lindeteves Jacoberg
Electrical installation Choon & Co.
Mail chute Hecla
Illuminated ceiling Star Art Co.
Safe deposit room ceiling Brady's
(Malaya) Ltd.
Furniture
Carpet
J
Ban Seng Furniture Co. Secomable (M) Ltd.
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Roof water proofing Guthrie &
Co. (M) Ltd.
Signcraft Lian Woh Signcrafts Co. Sanitary ware Lindeteves Jacoberg Glazed ceramic grilles Goh Ban
Huat Pottery Works Ltd. Ironmongery William Jack & Co. (M) Ltd.: Dodge & Seymour, and Harrisons & Crossfields
Fire fighting equipment McAlister
& Co. Ltd.
Light fittings China Engineers Ltd.: Unilite Industries, and Seng Hup Electric Co. Ltd.
Part of the general administrative office on
the mezzanine floor
Far East Architect & Builder May, 1967