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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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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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CO., LTD.

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KONG

CHINA

SUNDAY

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HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY

THE HONG KONG DAIRY FARM ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO LTS1

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AND CANTON ICE

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LTD

First Floor

Base RADIO CORPORATION FORME 1 I.

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INCORPORATED LAW NOCIETY

OF HONG KONG VIK KEF CO. LID

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Second Floor

TRAPING

CHINA

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their TAVIT Jato

sets, Rege tried ties just then product, have alety. Win Powell, Lui

brome well known

ivet,

Greenyang

the air-

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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