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(b) Oil

(c) Fresh Water

(d) Airship Gaa

8. Accommodation :-

(4) Hangars or Shelters

Number. Structure.

Net

Nat Breadth. Depth.

1

(Zh 10 )

Shell Oil. Minimum quantity in stook 50 gallons, Aero

Shall Heavy. Other grades obtainable at short notice. Stanavo Oil. Minimum quantity in stook 200 gallons Green Band. All grades Stanavo and Mobiloil supplied at

short notice.

Texaco Oil. Not stocked. Obtainable at short notice.

Potable water available at serodrome.

Nil.

Net Door | Net Door

Height.

Width.

Reservations.

One.

Steel and concrete.

194′ 3′′

260*

85'

121′ 8′′

(b) Mooring or Pegging down facilities

(c) Handling Personnel

(d) Hotels, Rest Houses, etc.

(0) Medical Facilities

9. Repair Facilities:—

(a) Workshops

(b) Spare Parts

(0) Compass Base (d) Weighbridge

10. Communications :-

(a) Air Line

(b) Railway (a) Road

(d) Local Transport

(#) Shipping

Telegraph

(9) Telephone

11. Radio Facilities:

(6) Radio Telegraphy

Not less than 25% normally avail.

able for visiting aircraft.

No permanent mooring or pegging down facilities. Pogging down would be necessary if no hangar socommodation available in typhoon season. No airship facilities. Handling personnel available from 0900 to 1700 and at all

other times as requested.

No accommodation or food available at airport. There are

good hotels in Kowloon and Victoria.

Medical room with first aid equipment at airport. Fully equipped government hospital one mile distant, with doctors always available.

Repairs undertaken by the Far East Flying Training School, Ltd., who have workshops at airport fully equipped for all wood and metal repairs, including welding, and a staff of licensed ground engineers.

Spares for Gipsy and Armstrong Siddeley engines and Avro and De Havilland aircraft stocked by above firm. Large quantity aircraft general spares, sheet metal, tubing, etc., available.

Non-rotating compass base at B.E. corner of landing ares. Aircraft weighbridge-up to 85 Tons.

British Overseas Airways Corporation to England and Australia, vid Thai (Siam) (suspended since October 1940).

Air France via Hanoi, French Indo-China to France

(suspended since July, 1940).

Pan American Airways to America, vid Manila and

Honolulu.

Eurasia and China National Airways to China (restricted

service in operation at present).

To Canton, Hankow, etc., (service interrupted at present). Good roads throughout territory,

Frequent omnibus service to Kowloon and thence by ferry

to Victoria. Taxis available at all hours. Ocean liners to all parts of the world. Coastal vessels to

Shanghai, Macso and all ports on China cosat. Telegraphic address “* AIRCIVIL HONG KONG ". Tele-

graph office at Kowloon City. † mila distant. Telephone at Control Tower, No. 58071 Exins. 75 and 112.

Hours of watch 0800-1700 L.T. daily. Other times by request. Three Marconi transmitters in use for long and short wave working. Transmitter Typs TÄ 1 W/L range 400 metres (750 Kas:) to 1,500 metres (200 Kos.) is tuned to a specified spot frequency of 900 metem