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GOVT
PRINTER'S DADCE STOKE
GOVT
STORES
DEPT
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BULK PADER STORE
GOVT
STORES
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PAINTING MACHINERY
Half first floor plan and section through building.
'U' representing the composing sec- tion; the curve, the press room and the other arm the bookbinding sec- tion. These three departments oc- cupy almost the entire centre section of the ground floor of the building- an area 68'-0" wide by about 225'-0" long which has been designed for maximum natural lighting with a flat slab ceiling supported by mush- room-topped columns and tall win- dows extending almost the entire width between columns. The floor height of 15 feet gives ample ventila- tion. Paper and sundries stores are adjacent to the press room, while the offset department, general offices and the main entrance/exit are ad- jacent to the two arms of the 'U'.
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On the first floor there will be a store to hold the large and varied stocks of publications available, a library and the bulk paper store Shipments of paper will be delivered directly to the first floor by hoist and stored in bales, which will be for- warded by internal chute to ground floor 'ready paper' store where it will be stored in racks in reams for issue as required. Also on the first floor, there will be a work. ers' canteen with kitchen, which will also be used for recreation purposes; adiacent to the canteen there will be
individual lockers for workmen, with
to those on the ground ficor. washroom and lavatories additional
in the prison printing shop. The chines will include two Miehle No. 3's tremendous amount of highly spe- with automatic feeders. four Cen- cialised work which has now to be turettes (two with automatic feed- done, however, has made it impera- ers), four Automatic Swifts, two tive that Government set up its own Glockners and seven platens of which printing works. With this end in two have built-in automatic feeders. view, Government purchased the Other machines are four disc ruling printing plant of Noronha & Com- machines, one folding machine, two pany. Ltd., the firm which was doing book sewing machines, two wire stit- the printing work previously, and ching machines, one semi-automatic the additional machinery which has plastic binding machine, punching. had to be purchased to keep up with drilling, perforating, gold blocking the present output and to anticipate machines and three power guillotines. Approximately two thirds of the future requirements has necessitated An additional feature will be a first floor is reserved for the use of the building of an entirely new work- separate small photo-offset litho the Government Stores Department. shop planned on most modern lines. plant, comprising camera, dark-room, These new workshops are designed four small rotary offset machines Although work is going ahead on to take care of these requirements. and auxiliary equipment. A battery the two-storeyed workshop at the Some idea of the extent of the operated fork-truck, obtaining its present time, provision was made in power by trickle charger from the the original design for the addition plant may be obtained from the fact mains, will transfer bulk materials of a third floor if this should be that there will be seven Linotype and printed matter from one section required at a later date. machines, a Monotype Supercaster, to another rapidly and with a result- twenty racks for Chinese type set- ing saving in manual labour. tings and twenty-four cabinets for Storage English type compositors.
The design of the building has racking to hold approximately 20/25 been laid out to ensure continuous tons of type in standing type formes flow and high production. The work- is also provided in the composing ing areas are in the form of an section. The actual printing ma- elongated letter 'U', one arm of the
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COMPOSING
The provisional cost of the build- ing, including fittings, is about $1,200,000.
Architect: S.E. Faber, A.F.C., B.Sc..
M.I.C.E.
General Contractors: Messrs. Lam
Woo & Company.
SECTION
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Key:
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3.
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PRESS SECTION
BOOKBINDING
1. Offices
Lavatories Kitchen Watchmen
· 352 20′′- Ground floor plan.
5. Stationery store
Miscellaneous store
6.
7. Ready paper store 8. Metal melting & roller composition
SECTION
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17
9.
Litho department
14. Public space
10. Dark room
15.
Switch room
11.
Camera
16.
Asst. Govt. Printers
12.
General office
17. Govt. Printer
13.
Secretaries
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