--DRIVE
WAY UP
LAV
SCAVENGING
LANE
TOOL-ROOM
TYRE CHANGE
LUBRITORIUM
ELECTRICIAN
INSPECTION PIT
TIN
SMITH
MOTOA
DRIVE-WAY
FUTURE
ADDITION
PAINT
| SHOP|
(Left) Ground floor plan.
(Beloir) First floor plan.
MOTOR
ORIVE-WAY
DRIVE IN
RIGHT
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WAY
INTERBRORS
Government should spend £3,030,000 joins Percival Street and the entrance on providing car parks for a total of to the Kellett Island Causeway. over 3,500 cars under nine London squares. and build eleven multi- storey garages, costing £8,660,000 and providing for another 7,250 cars, in congested traffic areas.
Upon the completion of these am- bitious schemes, parking meters would be installed along the sides of roads, and motorists would pay six- pence for one hour, and a shilling for a maximum of two hours. Is this the shape of things to come in Hong
Kong?
The new service garage for Far East Motors is conveniently situated in Wanchai less than ten minutes
The site lies almost 70 feet back from Percival Street and is approach ed by a 20 feet wide private road along the waterfront. The ground is about 120 feet square and the building occupies almost the entire area
after allowing for the private access road.
The garage is only two storeys high at present, but it will be possible to increase the height if the demand justifies it. The two enclosed floors are each over 10.000 square feet in
area.
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it might be necessary to utilise the whole of the enclosed areas for park- ing and the roof was not available- for instance during a typhoon total of 100 cars could still be accom-
well as the normal parking spaces. modated by using the driveways as
On the ground floor, there are ser- vicing bays for 28 cars, including four inspection pits; in the front of the building are a lubritorium equip- ped with two car hoists, a tool room, tyre change shop and electrician's shop. At the back of the building are tool benches, a liquid store and lavatories. There is an emergency exit door leading to the scaveng- ing lane to the south of the building; this exit and the large openings at the front of the building are equipped with steel rolling doors. There is a staff entrance in the south-west corner of the building. adjoining a staircase leading up to the first floor and the roof.
There is comfortable parking space drive from the centre of town. The for approximately 100 cars, including site lies just east of the end of 36 on the roof and including the ser- Gloucester Road, where the latter vicing areas; in circumstances where east wall of the structure, leads up
A 10 feet wide ramp, along the
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The first floor ramp to the roof.
Looking down the ramp to the ground floor.
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