MECHANICAL WORKSHOPS SECTION
209. The number of orders completed in the Workshops again rose and the total of 48,443 represented an increase of nearly 12 per cent over the previous year.
210. The installation by the Workshops Section of 97 more parking meters in the Central District of Victoria brought the number installed and under regular maintenance and servicing to 293.
MECHANICAL PLANT SECTION
211. This section maintains most of Government's engineering plant, sewage pumping and screening units, swimming pool filtration plants, diesel generating sets, water pumping sets, technical machinery and equipment, etc. Two new 25 K.W. diesel generators and 11 additional sets of dental equipment in clinics were installed.
STEAM SECTION
212. The rapidly increasing number of steam installations necessitated the formation of independent sections operating from the Hong Kong and Kowloon Workshops to install, and thereafter maintain, new plant.
213. The Kowloon section installed a complete steam plant at the new Castle Peak Hospital, which included two fully automatic oil-fired boilers each of 860 lbs. per hour rating, calorifiers, rice boilers, steam oven, laundry and sterilizing equipment.
214. Installation of the steam plant in the kitchen of the new Kowloon Hospital neared completion, and at the Tsan Yuk Hospital two steam boilers were relocated in a new boiler house while maintaining a continuous supply of steam and hot water.
AIR CONDITIONING AND REFRIGERATION SECTION
215. Air Conditioning installations completed under contract during the year had a total capacity of 323 tons of refrigeration; work continued on additional projects equivalent to 900 tons of refrigeration, the largest unit being in the City Hall with a rating of 630 tons.
216. In addition, designs and drawings were completed for numerous major and minor installations of a total capacity of 515 tons of refrigeration, whilst design work commenced on projects for a further 3,300 tons.
217. Private architects engaged on Government projects continued to call on this office for the design of air-conditioning plants, for their
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