One of the Otis developments that
From its fascinating electronic but- las, Texas, Here Autotronic-Without caused this demand for elevators is tons to the electrical "brain" which Attendant-Elevatoring was installed- the result of wartime achievements supervises each elevator's travel, Au- the first self-service elevators for busy in electronics. In an effort to take totronic Elevatoring is new. It is new office buildings. Electronic equipment the human element out of elevator in the AUTOmatic supervision it pro- makes the car operation completely operation through the years. Otis had vides, and in its use of the latest automatic and safe. developed elevators that could do elecTRONIC techniques and control about everything but think. Now devices. they are built to "think," too. With Autotronic Elevatoring the cars are operated-automatically and electro- nically as a coordinated group. The attendant simply registers floor calls and initiates door closing.
Otis Autotronic-Without Attendant- Autotronic Elevatoring applies an
Elevatoring offers the only substantial entirely new concept of matching saving in building operation that is elevator service to changing traffic available today. flow. It is the first elevator system to handle all of today's traffic pat- Autotronic-Without Attendant-Eleva- Although only three years old. Otis terns completely automatically.
toring is now operating in, or on or- der for, a large number of buildings from coast to coast. It is possible that this latest Otis elevator develop-
The United Nations headquarters
With elevators that operate auto- group is served by 32 Otis elevators matically as a group, only one more and 12 escalators, all under Otis Main- step is needed to eliminate the hu- tenance. The Autotronic elevators man element entirely. That was ment may prove to be one of the operate at speeds up to 1200 feet per first taken in 1950 at the Atlantic most important in the past one hun- minute.
Refining Company building in Dal- dred years.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AWARDED
4th September
Maintenance of Drainage Works
(1) Island
(2) Mainland
September October 1953.
Precast R. C. Piles, Concrete Blocks for Port
Works Office
Construction of H.K.R.N.V.R. Headquarters Demolition of Yaumati Old Market Social Welfare Centre
Laying of 27-in. diameter water main
2nd October
Maintenance of roads & bridges
(1) New Territories
(2) Kowloon & New Kowloon (3)
Outside city of Victoria
(4) Inside city of Victoria
Proposed Sha Tau Kok Primary School
Extensions to Shamshuipo Police Station Maintenance of buildings
do.
Resettlement Area Officers Quarters Markets in Resettlement Areas
Reconstruction of Castle Peak Road
Const. of Bath House at Gutzlaff Street
Const. of Latrine at Tong Shui Road, North
Point
Nam Hing Co. Yeung Fat & Co.
Paul Y. Const. Co.
$1,000,000.00
1,000,000.00
386.051.10
Sang Lee & Co. (1945)
590,520.00
On Lee & Co.
11,000.00
Hang On Tai
5,900.00
Wan Hin & Co.
78,073.50
Wan Hin & Co. Kwan On Fook Lee & Co. Fook Lee & Co. Ping Kee Const. Co.
Fook Lee & Co.
Fook Lee & Co.
Ping Kee Const. Co.
Hang On Tai
Hang On Tai
Paul Y. Const. Co.
On Lee & Co.
Yick Lee & Co.
750,000.00
1,850,000.00
825,000.00
1,325,000.00 392,759.73
372,970.00
3,350,000.00 750,000.00 19,800.00
6,900.00
315,215.26
33,108.48
27,830.00
JARDINE'S LOOKOUT
Continued from page 49.
area acquired by the purchaser shall Most of the buildings in the district and variety which characterizes the bear to the total area. The purcha- have been designed by Mr. Hugh appearance of the grouping and ser must also contribute 1 per cent Braga who was the leading spirit in arrangement of the buildings. The of the total cost of land, site forma- the promotion of the Company and planting of trees and the setting out tion, services and building towards the resultant development of this of gardens and floral arrangements the cost of any community building valuable area. Every building was will go a long way to offsetting the provide, but no funds which may be designed to the individual taste and present barren
or buildings which the company may
appearance of the paid to the company under this con- requirements of the owner and the roadways and approaches, but we dition shall be expended by the com- usual fatal error of building groups of understand that steps have already pany unless the majority of the a prototype was studiously avoided. been taken to remedy this defect. residents agree to the planning and Consequently, there is no trace of
erection of the proposed communal the monotony or ugliness of rubber As opportunity and space permits
amenities. In this connection it
might be mentioned that a Jardine's stamp repetition so common in subur- we shall endeavour in future numbers to illustrate and describe a few of the The topography Lockout Residents' Association has ban developments. recently been formed to co-ordinate of the area and the formation of lots more noteworthy residences that have the efforts
the already been completed and of the made
different to be
in this to direction as well as to protect the natural contours of the originally many new structures which are being interests and promote the mutual hilly character of the land, also planned for the near future, some of welfare of its members.
helped to create a spirit of originality which have already been started.
levels.
following
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