On the roof a signal and wireless
The design was prepared by the was started in September. station with a mast and visual signall- Architectural Office of the Public ing facilities is being provided. In Works Department under the Chief addition there will be accommodation
Architect, Mr. A.M.J. Wright and the for the caretaker.
Acting Chief Architect, Mr. G. P.
The building will be of R.C.C. frame Norton. construction with brick panel walls. The roof will be insulated with Fibre-
Work was begun on the demolition glass and covered with roofing felt. of the old structure that occupied the Walls will generally be finished with site in March. When this was com- plaster internally and cement render- pleted, 114 piles were driven for the ed externally; the lower parts of the foundations of the new building: pile outside walls will be finished with driving was completed in July, and Shanghai plaster.
the construction of the building itself
General Contractors:
Architect: Mr. H. Y. Chan (P.W.D.)
Sang Lee &
Co. (1945).
Franki Piling: Hong Kong Engineer-
ing & Construction Co., Ltd.
Crittall Windows: Dodwell & Co..
Ltd.
Express Lifts: The British General
Electric Co., Ltd.
CHINA FLEET CLUB EXTENSION
The strip of land between the the building, facing Gloucester Road ings arranged to co-ordinate their HKRNVR Headquarters' site and the and Jaffe Road respectively. For this floor levels and elevational treatment. existing China Fleet Club building, reason, the ground floor will be used as the illustration well shows. The has been taken over by the Club, for as a godown, the first floor for general Club extension is, however, set back the purpose of building on it an storage space, and the second floor somewhat from the line of the other eight-storeyed extension to their for a bowling hall containing four premises. The foundation stone of
new building. the new structure was laid on 29th June by the Chairman of the Club,
The next four storeys will contain Commodore H. G. Dickinson, D.S.C.. servants quarters, canteen and re- tion between the Annexe and the Fleet R.N., a few days before he retired as creational facilities.
Club itself at the roof level, and at The top floor, Commodore-in-Charge of the Colony's Naval Forces. The new building will be known as the Coronation Annexe.
alleys.
There will be horizontal communica-
which only extends over the back of one of the intermediate floor levels. the building, will house a fully equip- The building is of reinforced con- ped laundry for the Fleet Club, with crete frame construction, with the drying space on the roof.
same external finish as the Head-
The site is 118 feet deep but has a street frontage of only 27 feet. Owing to the narrowness of this site, it was
Because of the extremely narrow quarters' building. The architects are considered essential to utilise its entire frontage of this building, and the fact Messrs. Leigh & Orange, the General width with the consequence that the that the HKRNVR Headquarters' Contractors are Messrs. Siu Kin & Co.. lower three floors have light and air building is being built at the same and the Crittall windows are being only at the north and south ends of time, the architects of the two build- supplied by Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
WILLIAM JACKS & CO., LTD.
SPECIALISTS IN ASPHALT ROOFING, TANKING & FLOORING
Suppliers of
ASBESTOS CEMENT
PRODUCTS Universal Asbestos
HARDBOARDS ETC.
Mascnite
ROLLER SHUTTERS
PNEUMATIC TOOLS
PUMPS
ASPHALT PRODUCTS
Limmer & Trinidad
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
WATERPROOFING
CONCRETE MIXERS
A. L. Gibson
C.P.T.
Sigmund
Angus
COMPOUNDS Sealocrete
EXCAVATORS
UNION LOCKS AND
DOOR FURNITURE
HARDWARE Josiah Parkes
Wm. Newman
BOSTIK ADHESIVES
STRONG ROOM
CASTORS & WHEELS
B. B. Chemical
Parker
Blaw Knox
Flexello
EQUIPMENT Hobbs, Hart.
SLIDING DOOR GEAR Hill Aldam
HEAD OFFICE:
LONDON
We invite you to inspect our stand at THE BUILDING CENTRE, ABERDEEN
or to call upon us at
302 PRINCE'S BUILDING, H.K.
Telephone:
22392
7
BRANCHES :
INDIA-BURMA
CEYLON