ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL OFFICE
Government Electrical & Mechanical Engineer:
D. W. WALKER, B.Sc. (Eng.), M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E.
GENERAL
6.01. The activities of this sub-department whose total authorized establishment has reached a figure of over 2,400 are threefold, namely, the design, specification and installation of mechanical or electrical plant for new projects, the operation of major workshops for the maintenance of electrical and mechanical equipment and the operation of large plant installations such as are to be found in air conditioning, hospital engineering, incinerators and abattoirs.
6.02. Administration was carried out from the head office in the old dockyard premises at Harcourt Road where the Island electrical and air conditioning/refrigeration workshops were also situated, the mechanical workshops for the Island being located at Caroline Hill and all the Mainland activities of the sub-department being concentrated in the new workshops at Sung Wong Toi Road, Kowloon.
ELECTRICAL DIVISION
Chief Electrical Engineer:
S. T. YUEN, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E.
6.03. The Electrical division, which has a direct labour force of 600 men of various grades and trades, handles the installation and maintenance of electrical equipment and plant of considerable diversity, ranging from incinerator plant and quarry installations to traffic-light control systems and submersible pumps. To cope with installation and maintenance responsibilities of such magnitude and diversity the Division is divided into the following sections:
New Projects
Installation
Maintenance
Kai Tak Airport E. & M. Service (Maintenance and operation)
City Hall (Maintenance and operation)
6.04. The New Projects section is responsible for designing, preparing specifications and working drawings and the supervision, either by contract or direct labour, of electrical installations for major civil
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