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THE CHINA MAIL'S WINDSOR HOUSE SUPPLEMENT, APRIL 21, 1941.
ASSOCIATED PRODUCE CO.
Windsor House, 1st Floor
Hong Kong
(Telephone No. 25371)
Exports: -- Duck & Goose Feathers
China Wood Oil
Essential Oils
Star Aniseed
Gallnuts
Galangal Roots Cantharides China Soy Seagrass
Rattan & Rattan Core
Rattan Furniture
Firecrackers
Cotton Piece Goods
Bamboo Shoots
and various kinds of China produce
and products.
POHOOMULL BROS. (INDIA)
(Almost A Century Old)
EXPORTERS & IMPORTERS
Dry Goods, Piece Goods, Underwear,
Curios, Torches, Batteries.
Etc.
ALL GOODS MANUFACTURED
IN HONG KONG AND CHINA
Windsor House
P.O. Box 159
Hong Kong
JAPAN COTTON TRADING
CO., LTD.
(Nippon Menkwa Kabushiki Kaisha)
Established 1892
Cotton, Cotton Yarn, Piece Goods, Raw Silk, Rayon, Wool, Jute, Rice and General Commission Merchants.
HEAD OFFICE
Osaka, Japan,
BRANCHES
Yokohama, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe, Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Rangoon, Alexandria, Mombasa, Soerbaja, Sydney, Hamburg, Liver- pool, New York, Dollars, Houston, Sao Paulo, Keijo, Moppo, Dairen, Hoten, Antung, Chin- chow, Hsinking, Yenki, Harbin, Kiamusze, Peking, Kalgan, Welhsien, Shanghal, Honkow, Tsingtau, Tientsin, Tsinan, Changtien, Canton, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Problem Of External Finish
One of the most interesting features of the construction ol Windsor House,
the both from viewpoint of building technique and final appearance, was the ex- tremal
by finish chosen
the Architeets
This is of a type greatly favour- intro- ed in Great titain and
duced for the
Catony by
Change
tively treated
first time to the MUNES. Leigh and
in
of decora The finish consists
pre-east concrete. abs which resalt In a clea surface of outstanding appearance.
The slabs
pre-cust were Mutable moulds from materials supplied by the Green Island Ce ment Company, and allowed for
1. andinaay 13 errete and an additional 1. of facing ndsture cor esting of be part of Colomerete and 12. part of stone chup
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What the building formerly on the site of Windsor House looked like.
Known as the White House. its appearance compared with the new building gives an idea of the proarers in the Colony's since the 1880's
BOSCO RADIO ADVANCE
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It an outstanding leatue of this cystein whim vased an exuerete that the slabs act as well a providing a
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Windsor House Directory
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DAIRY
Ground Floor
FARM. MAIN SHOP
AND CAPE.
CHINA MAIL AND SUNDAY
HERALD PRINTING WORKS
Mezzanine Floor
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE
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Second Floor
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their TAVIT Jato
sets, Rege tried ties just then product, have alety. Win Powell, Lui
brome well known
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Greenyang
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King Bros & Co. Lid
King Brothers Bidia, Lad
tants and Auditors.
They are ab manufas turers of Society of Theorporated Accoun - "Inter Department Phmac paratus.
Their products are manufactur. ed and assembled in then work durable La face.
Is'and and shops With the structural mainland
The Geek Constructe found that there was actually a consider- able avant to luffering and tame by thr
From the mez- zanine to the top floor, the rate of prvitere, averaged at ten days pe flour
COTTON TRADING
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the
the Arst floor
the
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of
Pagden Torban & Co HK, LAI
City Investment Co. Lad
West Print Cu, fad Joangi Syndicate. 14
Anta-M-IXI, Selection Teu 1. 14 Kowloom Triest, Lad
Securities 1d Treasure-
Jewish Recreation Club Rotary Club of Hong Kong
Then radios are made special. by for Hong Kong's amatie cut- ditions, and only the best of mas terials Ko into them products Hong Kong Cricket Club. which are reasonably jaierd and Hong Kong Football AssocatiH. age my view in their attractive Hong Kong Football Club showroom on Windsor House.
The Busco Radio Corporation are sole selling agents for Westing- house Rudios, and sub-agents for Pico Domestic Refrigerators, Yorkshire Air Conditioners, and Super Cold Commercial Refri- gerators
The Japan Colton Trading They have branches at Shanghai, and Macao. and have Company, Ltd (Nippon Men Kwaj Canton Kabushniki Kasha) who occupy agents in Chicago, Toronto, Bris- offices on the first floor of Wind-bane, Johannesburg. Belsize, B.H., sor House, first opened for busi- and Port-of-Spain, B.W.I. ness in the Colony in 1913, at No.
2. Commaught Ronet.
For a brief period, between 1936 and 1939, the Hong Kong branch was elused, but the Company re- opened in 1939 at No. 2 Read, and removed House as soon at their new quar-
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1940
Chader to Windsor
Heavy Pumping
were ready, September Task
trt
The extent of the water problem connected with
Third Floor
COLONIAL TREASURY
Fourth Floor WAR TAXATION DEPART-
MENT
INLAND
Fifth Floor
MENT
REVENUE DEPART-
STAMP OFFICE
ESTATE DUTY OFFICE.
BETTING AND ENTERTAIN-
MENT DUTIES.
AUDIT DEPARTMENT
UNITED STATES RUBBER EX-
PORT CO., LTD.
ALEX ROSS & CO., (CHINA).
LTD.
Sixth Floor
CENTRAL MEAT AND DAIRY
SUPPLY CO. LTD GRAY BROTHERS
The principal business done by the Company is in cotton yarn. 1pt'ཎྷ་9-1!!4⪜t{;; anet other textiles although at one time they did a large business in rice with their the construction of Wind-GRAY BROS. CONSTRUCTION own mill in Rangoon,
COMPANY. GRAY ESTATES.
The Company has branches at Sor House may be gauged over the world and deals in all from the fact that over PARAMOUNT BALLROOM. kinds of sundry goods, in addition, 1,500,000 gallons of water
to its main business.
Construction Supervisor
Reflective Value
were pumped from the foundations and base- ment during the erection. Three pumps with a total cap- acity of 3.000 gallons
Gypsum plasters were used for were employed, and frequently the plastering on the whole of they pumped out as much as the interior ceilings and walls of 20,000 galloons in a day.
hour an
by
Mr. W. J. Morris, who super- vised the construction of Windsor The task was complicated House for the H.K. Land Invest- the heavy rains of last Spring. ment and Agency Company, Ltd., The floors were erected at un- was also supervisor of construction usually rapid pace--an average House and Marina of ten days per floor-up to the of Holland House,
truss level of the roof in a race Не is a native of Englefeld against the rains, but before the Green, Surrey, and has been with roof could be completed the heavy the Land Investment Company rains came unexpectedly carly since 1925.
and obstructed the early pletion of the lower numerous ways.
At the peak period during the Windsor House, construction of
foors
com-
Windsor House,
The base coat to walls consisted of a fibrous gypsum mixture with a final coat of gypsum Plaster of Paris or Keene Cement.
Suspended ceilings were con- Plaster structed with Simplex Boards suspended by steel studs and hangers and covered with two layers of gypsum plaster.
The use of these materials in-
in sures the greatest reflective value
from the walls, an important fea-¦- ture in Windsor House where the Some 338 Vibro Piles averag-entrance of daylight is restricted ous contractors were working at ing in length from 25 feet to 40 by the presence of tall edifices on' one time,
well over 300 employees of vari-
feet support, Windsor, House,
either side.
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