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The east side looking towards the pavilion.
tending the seating terraces still further up the sides of the valley and continuing the seating round the northern end of the ground, the stadium capacity could be increased to hold 93,000 spectators.
The enlargement of the Stadium to its maximum capacity may present the en- gineers with special subsidiary problems, which will have to be solved before the work can proceed, but there is no doubt that should the need arise and the decision made to proceed with these extensions the various difficulties will be overcome.
Of one thing we may be sure, that with the completion of the amphitheatre in its present form, a sound start has been made towards any future requirements that will put, and maintain, Hong Kong in the fore- front of athletic competitions in the future. Floodlighting will be carried out from four steel pylons, each carrying a battery of floodlights having an average height above the football pitch of 175 ft. Each battery of lights will consist of thirty-six 1500-watt High Brightness Lighting Fit- tings. calculated to give a minimum lighting value on the football pitch and athletic track of 8o lux. In addition, six Low Brightness 1500-watt fittings will be arranged on the front edge of the covered stand roof to light up that portion of the athletic track directly in front of the stand.
Detail of the covered stands.
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In addition to the floodlighting for the Electrical Export Co. Ltd. and football field, extra lights will be mounted British Thomson-Houston Export on the towers for illumination of the ter Ltd.. both members of the A.E.I. group races, perimeter roads and car parks. In of
engineering organizations. all, no less than 186 1500-watt lighting Arnhold & Co. Ltd. and Inniss & Riddle fittings will be employed with a total (China) Ltd. are also agents for The maximum loading of 279 kilowatts. British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd., by whom the necessary cables for the Power to the four towers will be taken installation will be supplied. by underground cable from the switch house on the ground floor of the pavilion. Gas provides an ample supply of hot On the second floor, in the General Office, water for the showers in the Pavilion, a control switchboard in the form of a through the medium of eight No. 713 miniature diagram of the Stadium and its Ascot Multipoint water heaters which have surroundings will be installed. Indicator automatic control. The service kitchen lights on this control board will show at has also been supplied with a glance which portions of the floodlight- cooking equipment. ing system are lit at any one time.
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The designing and supervision of the The contractors for the floodlighting in construction work of the Stadium stallation art Arnhold & Co. Ltd. an·l done by the Port Works Office, and of Inniss & Riddle (China) Ltd. respectively the Pavilion by the Architectural Office of representing The Metropolitan Vickers the P.W.D.
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Main Stadium Contractor: Lun Sang &
Co., Ltd.
Contractor for Roof: Wa Hing Con-
struction Co.
Pavilion Contractor: Tak Hing & Co.
Photograph of the completed pavilion and plan of the ground flour changing rooms.
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Automatic Turnstile Control Equipment: Messrs. Automatic Turnstile Control Lt. Nottingham, England.
General Lighting Contractor: General Electric Co., Ltd.
British
P. A. Systems and Telephones: British
General Electric Co., Ltd.
Gas Installation: The Hong Kong &
China Gas Co., Ltd.
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Fluorescent Lighting Fittings: The Jardine Engineering Corp., Ltd.
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