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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
Ratlan & 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 459
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, Soerbája, Sydney, Hamburg, Liver- pool, New York, Dollars, Houston, Sao Paulo, Keijo, Moppo, Dairen. Hoten, Antung, Chin- chow, Hsinking, Yenki, Harbin, Kiamusze,
· Peking, Kulgan, Weiusien, Shanghai, Hankow, Tsingtau, Tientsin, Tsinan, Changtien, Canton, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Problem Of External Finish
One of the most interesting features of the construction of Windsor House, both from the viewpoint of building technique and final appearance, was the ex- ternal Anish chosen by the Architects.
This is of a type greatly favour ed in Great
intro- Britain and duced for the first Ume to the Messrs. Colony by
Leigh and Orange.
of decora- The finish consists tively treated pre-cast concrete slabs which result in a cleancut surface of outstanding appearance, The subs were pre-cast in suitable moulds, from materials supplied by the Green Island (e- ment Company, and allowed for 11⁄2" ordinary 13 concrete mix
Minh e
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 progress in the Colony's since the 1880's.
BOSCO
and an additional 15 of facing RADIO
mixture consisting of one part of
eulorerete and 19 parts of stone ADVANCE
chips
Reinforcing. chiefly specially
designed 1/8th in Crip mesh | One of the most enterprising of panels with wire Les attached.'radi, receiving apparatus manu was used to ensure strength and Tacturers is the Bore Radio Cor
poration, which occupies offices to assist stability during erection.
The face-up method was used and a showroom on the fist flour throughout and credit is due to, of Windsor House
the
mantr'acturers MER Established in 1936 with a small Cathay Ceramics (HK) Ltd. that office in Happy Valley, the com
some 680 different pany prospered by leaps and in spite of shapes and sizes, all surface bounds and soon became one of finishes are monolithic with the the foremost radio dealers in the backing.
Colony.
The number of such slabs in the building is approximately 14,500, envering an area of 55,000 square
feet
the
In 1937, they moved into 101- land House and in September last year occupied them present offices in Windsor House
To produce them. 168 drums of Until eighteen months ago, the Coldmete and 770 bags of Green Hore Radio Corporation. were Island cement were used in their only selling agents for Westing- manufacture and erection Some of use Radio Reeeiving Sets and
Phileo the slaby, pecially around
Refrigerators, but when front entrance and the first win- Government imposed restrictions. dow sills, weighed up to 700 lbs
on the import of radio sets, which The sals were erected in affected their business, they em courses in the position they had barked upon the manufacture of to occupy on the face of the build- their own radio
receiving sets, ing, their points were grouted and and their products have already close-fitting wood battens kept become well known in the mar- them braced whilst the concrete | ket.
paratus,
wall was being cast behind them They are also manufacturers of
It is an outstanding feature of "Inter-Department Phone” this system when used in concrete structure, that the slabs act as
Their products are manufactur- formwork as well as moviding a ed and assembled in their work-
mooth. hard, durable surface, shops On the
island and monolithic with the structural, mainland. work
the
Their radios are made special-, The General Crimbactor fondly for Hong Kong's e imatie con- that there was actually a consider-ditions, and only the best of ma- able saving in shuttering and time terials go Lo their products by this system. From the mez- zanine to the top floor, the rate of progress averaged at ten days per floor.
COTTON TRADING
which are reasonably priced and are un view in their attractive showroom on the first floor Windsor House.
of
The Bosco Hadio Corporation are sole selling agents for Westing- house Radios, and sub-agents for Philco Domestic Refrigerators. Yorkshire Air Conditioners, and Super Cold Commercial Refri- gerators.
The Japan Cotton Trading They have branches at Shanghai, and Macao, and have Company, Ltd. (Nippon Men Kwa Canton Kabushiki Kaisha) 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. Connaught Road,
For a brief period, between 1936 and 1939, the Hong Kong branch was closed, but the Company re- opened in 1939 at No 2 later Road, and removed to Windsor House as soon as their new quar-
Heavy Pumping
ters were ready. in September. Task
1940.
The principal business done by
the Company is in collon yarn. The extent of the water
piceegoori and
other textiles ! problem connected with
although at one time they did a
Windsor House Directory
Ground Floor
DAIRY FARM, MAIN SHOP
AND CAFE.
CHINA MAIL AND SUNDAY HERALD PRINTING WORKS
Mezzanine Floor
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE
CO., LTD.
THE
"GVERLAND
MAIL."
THE "HONG KONG
HERALD."
CHINA
SUNDAY
THE "CHINA MAIL" THE HONG KONG DOLLAR
DIRECTORY.
THE HONG KONG DAIRY FARM
ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.
THE H.K AND CANTON ICE MANUFACTURING Co.
LTD.
First Floor
BOSCO RADIO CORPORATION PUHOOMULL BROTHERS
(INDIA)
ASSOCIATED PRODUCE COM
PANY.
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HING LOONG SHIPPING (0) 13D NIPPON
MEN KWA KAISHA JAPANESE COTTON TRADING CO. LTD)).
GEO K HALL. BRUTTON & CO
さい PERFORMING RIGHTS
CIETY. LTD.
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY
OF HONG KONG YIK KEE CO, LTD
JAVA
Second Floor
CHINA
TRADING CO.
LTD. CHINA ELECTRIC CO. LTD THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE
INSURANCE CO PERCY SMITH, SETH AND
FLEMING.
Hampden Ross, A CA, FSAA W. L Alexander, CA D Black, C.A. Registered offices. Wm. Powell, Lid,
Kino Bros. & Co., Ltd. King Brothers India. Lid. Striety of incorporated Accoun -
tants and Auditors. Fogtien Brisbane & Co. H K., Ltd. Cily Investment Ca, Ltd. West Point Co, Ltd Joangi Syndicate. Ltd. Anta-M-1XL Selection Trust, Ltd. Kowloon Trust, Ltd. Securities, Ltd.
Treasurers; -
Hong Kong Cricket Club. Hong Kong Football Association, Hong Kong Football Club, Jewish Recreation Club. Rotary Club of Hong Kong.
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
large business in rice with their the construction of Wind- GRAY BROS. CONSTRUCTION
own mult in Rangoon,
sor House may be gauged
The Company has branches all! ver the world and drals in all from the fact that over kinds of sundry goods, in addition, 1,500,000 gallons of water
to its main business.
Construction Supervisor
Mr. W. J. Morris, who super- vised the construction of Windsor House for the H.K. Lund Invest- ment and Agency Company, Ltd., was also supervisor of construction of Holland House and Marina House,
He is a native of Englefield Green, Surrey, and has been with the Land Investment Company since 1925,
were pumped from the foundations and base- ment during the erection.
Three pumps with a total cap- acity of 3,000 gallons an hour were employed, and frequently they pumped out as much as 20,000 galloons in a day.
by
COMPANY.
GRAY ESTATES.
PARAMOUNT BALLROOM.
Reflective Value
Gypsum plasters were used for the plastering on the whole of the interior ceilings and walls of Windsor House.
The task was complicated
The base coat to walls consisted the heavy rains of last Spring. of a brous gypsum mixture with The floors were erected at un- a final coat of gypsum Plaster of usually rapid pace-an average Paris or Keene Ceinent, of ten days per floor-up to the Suspended ceilings were con-
structed truss level of the roof in a race
with Simplex Plaster against the rains, but before the Boards suspended by steel studs roof could be completed the heavy and hangers and covered with two rains came unexpectedly early layers of gypsum plaster. and obstructed the early com- pletion of the lower .floors numerous ways.
The use of these materials in- insures the greatest reflective value from the walls, an important fea- ture in Windsor House where the entrance of daylight is restricted by the presence of tall edifices' on either side.
At the peak period during the construction of Windsor House, well over 300 employees of vari- Some 338 Vibro Piles averag- ous contractors were working at ing In length from 25 feet to 40 one time,
fect support Windsor House,
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