NATIONAL CASH REGISTER BUILDING
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The architect's drawing of the building now under construction.
A very important property tran- Road. It is comparatively level, rooms for the accounting machine saction occurred on 26th October rectangular in shape, and covers division and for the cash register 1951, when the Asiatic Petroleum 2800 square feet. Company sold a large portion of their land situated between Elec-
division, and a corridor giving access to other accommodation on the ground floor. This corridor,
the staff entrance on the side street, provides access to the staircases and to the lift.
The building will Occupy the tric Road and King's Road in the entire site and will be 40 feet by which may also be reached from 70 feet. It will consist of a base- Causeway Bay district.
ment and six floors. The base- Of this land. 9,000 square feet ment covers the west half of the were sold for $30.00 per square site, the east half of which is foot and 192,000 square feet at unexcavated, and provides over $27.50 per square foot.
Since the sale. considerable
new
outside yard into which descends the fire escape, and from which there is an exit to the scavenging
lane.
canopy
At the back of the building on 1000 square feet of storage space. the ground floor are the cash The entrance on the ground register division salesmen's room, the sales promotion room, an activity has taken place on this floor is in the centre of the King's office, toilets, and a doorway to an property. A number of
Road elevation of the building, apartment buildings have been flanked by a plateglass window on constructed,
This entrance leads to ΟΙ are under con- each side. struction, while along the main a large combined reception and road frontage several attractively showroom, along the north wall designed commercial buildings are of which is another large plate- A reinforced concrete included in the development, glass window overlooking the side extends from the building 6 feet foremost amongst which is
street. In one corner of the
over the pavements of both the branch office building for the showroom is a teak counter for main and side roads. National Cash Register Company. the reception clerk. The show-
room occupies the entire width of The front half of the first floor The site for this new building the building, and is over 16 feet contains a large service room and forms sub-section 1 of Section G deep. There is ample shelf space an office, which are separated from of IL. 2273. It has as its main for the display of the wide variety each other by seven feet high frontage King's Road, which runs of the smaller types of business glazed partitions. Also on this approximately north and south at machines. in which the firm floor are three smaller offices, a this point, with the north boun- specialises. Off the showroom and storage room, a parts store, and a dary formed by a proposed new opposite to the entrance is a hall spray booth; the latter room has road running west from King's leading to two demonstration two sets of self-closing doors to
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