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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,

Ete.

ALL GOODS MANUFACTURED

IN HONG KONG AND CHINA

Windsor House

P.O. Box 459

Hong Kong

TRADING JAPAN COTTON

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, Keljo, Moppo, Dairen, Hoten, Antung, Chin- chow, Hsinking, Yenki, Harbin, Klamusze, Peking, Kalgan, Welhsien, Shanghal, Hankow, Tsingtau, Tientsin, Talnan, Changtien, Canton, Bangkok and Hong Kong,"

Problem Of External Finish

One of the most interesting of of the construction features Windsor House, both from the viewpoint of building technique and Anal appearance, was the ex- ternal

by the finish chosen Architects

This is of a type greatly favour- intro- ed in Great

Orange.

Britain und

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 "OVERLAND

MAIL."

THE HONG

HERALD

CHINA

KONG SUNDAY

THE "CHINA MAIL"

HONG KONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY

THE HONG KONG DAIRY FARM ICE AND COLD STORAGE CO., LTD THE HK

duced for the first time to the

Messrs. Leigh and What the bullding formerly on Colony by

the site of Windsor House looked

Known as the White House, THE of decora-like. The finish consists tively treated pre-cast concrete its appearance compared with the Slabs which result in a cleancut new building gives an idea of the progress in the Colony's since the surface of outstanding appearance.

in 1880's The slabs were pre-east suitable moulds, from materiais supplied by the Green Island Ce ment Company, and allowed for 1y" miary 13 concrete. audi am additional " of facing mlsiure consisting of one part at colorerete and 1y parts of stond clops

BOSCO RADIO ADVANCE

Repotencing. chiefly specially

1/81 an en irap designed

mesh panels with wire Lies attached, was used to ensure strength and to assist stabilty driving erection. The Tare-up method was used throughout and credit is due to

manufacture

Menon Established in 1936 with a small Cathay Ceramies (HK) Ltd. that office to Happy Valley, the com

different pany

and by leaps Son 680

prospered m spitę shorpes and AIZU all surface bounds and soon became one el Aides are monolithic with the the foremost radio dealers in the backing.

Colony.

One of the most enterpit aut odi radii receping appakalas tema fartures is the Boren Radio Cot putation. which occupars olliers and a showroom on the first flow of Windsor Hotba

The number of such slabs in the building as approximately 14.500. covering an area of 55,000 square 1t

the

En 1937, they murd me 1. Hard House and in September Fast yen occupied turn present offlers in Windsor Home.

radio receiving SPIs.

1

AND CANTON MANUFACTURING

LTD

First Floor

ICE CO

ROSCO RADIO CORPORATION POHOOMULL BROTHERS

INDIA)

ASSOCIATED PRODUCE COM

PANY

HOP HING LOONG SHIPPING

LTD

NIPPON MEN KWA KAISHA GAPANESE COT FON TRADING CO

GEO. K HALL BRUTTON & CO

SO PERFORMING RIGHTS

CETY 1.TO

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY

OF HONG KONG YIK KEE CO, LTD

Second Floor

JJAVA CHINA TRADING

LTD. CHINA ELECTIC THE

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LTD

PERCY

MANUFACTURERS INSURANCE CO

SMITH SETH FLEMING.

1.IFE

AND

and the products have already Win. Powell, Lid

become well known in the mar- ket.

To produce them. 168 drums of Chuud righteen months ago, the Radio Corporalati were Colorerete and 770 bags of Green Bosen Island cement were used in their, only selling agents for Westing manufacture and erection Some of 1 house Radio Receiving Sets and when Phileo Refrigerator, but The slab. perally around front enliance and the fist win- Cavernment imposed resintetions

S. Hampden Hoss, A CA PSA.A. dow sills, weighed up to 700 lbs i un the amport of radio sets, which

W. I. Alexander, C.A. The slabs

it afTexted their business, they en- prerted {ཎཱ་༩༨*#* courses, in the position they hat; barked upon the manufacture of 12 Black, CA.

Registeredd (licen to occupy on the face of the build their ing, their points were grouted and close-fitting wood battens kept them braced whilst the concrete wall was being east behind them

It is an outstanding feature of This system when used in concrete structures that the slabs act as Their products are manufactur. formwork as well an moviding ai ed and assembled in the work-

the hard, durable surface, Eshops

Island and smooth. monolithic with the structural mainland, work.

Their radios are made special-, The General Cunharlor ford ly for Hong Kong's cumalie con- that there was actually a consider-› ditions, and only the best of ma-

into their able saving me shattering and time, terials go by this system. From the me- zanine to the top floor, the rate of progress averaged at ten days THE AUDE.

COTTON TRADING

The

Japan Cotton Trading Company, Ltd. (Nippon Men Kwa Kabushiki Kaisha) who occupy offices on the first floor of Wind- sor House, first opened for busi- Begs 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 Chater Road, and removed to Windsor

They are also manufacturers of

Phone" "Inter-Depatment. paratus.

ap

the

King Bros. & Co. Ltd. King Brothers India, Ltd. Society of Incorporated Accoun-

tanis and Auditors, Fogden Brisbane & Ch. HK. Lud City Investment Co., 1.tel West Point Co., Ltd. Joangi Syndicate, Lu!. Anta-M-IXL Selection Trust, Ltd. Kowloon Trust, Ltd. Securities, Ltd.

Treasurers. -

products Hong Kong Cricket Clubs which are reasonably priced and Hong Kong Football Associatioti

altractive Hong Kong Football Club are on view in their

the first foor

Jewish Recreation Club. of showroom on

Rotary Club of Hong Kong Windsor House.

The Bosco Radio Corporation are

Third Floor sole selling agents for Westing- house Radios, and sub-agents for Philco Domestic Refrigerators, Yorkshire Air Conditioners, and Super Cold Commercial Refri- gerators.

They have branches at Shanghai, and Macao. and have Canton agents in Chicago, Toronto, Bris- bane, Johannesburg, Belsize, B.H., and Port-of-Spain, B.W.1.

Heavy Pumping September Task

House as soon as their new quar- ters were ready, in 1940.

The principal business done by yarn. the Company is in cotton pieregoods and other textiles, although at one time they did a large business in rice with their own mill in Rangoon,

The Company has branches at over the world and deals in all kinds of sundry goods, in addition

to its main business.

Construction Supervisor

Mr. W. J. Morris, who super- vised the construction of Windsor House for the H.K, Land 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,

At the peak period during the construction of Windsor House, well over 300 employees of vari- ous contractors were working at one time.

COLONIAL TREASURY

Fourth Floor WAR ΤΑΧΑΤΙΟΝ DEPART

MENT.

Fifth Floor

INLAND REVENUE DEPART-

MENT.

STAMP OFFICE,

ESTATE DUTY OFFICE

BETTING AND ENTERTAIN-

MENT DUTIES.

AUDIT DEPARTMENT.

UNITED STATES RUBBER EX-

PORT CO., LTD.

ALEX. ROSS & CO., (CHINA),

LTD.

COMPANY. GRAY ESTATES. PARAMOUNT BALLROOM.

Sixth Floor The extent of the water CENTRÁL MEAT AND DAIRY

SUPPLY CO., LTD. problem connected with

GRAY BROTHERS. the construction of Wind-GRAY BROS. CONSTRUCTION Sor House may be gauged from the fact that over 1,500,000 gallons of water were pumped from the foundations and base- ment during the erection. Three pumps with a total cap- acity of 3,000 gallons An hour 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.

Reflective Value

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. -

The task was complicated by the heavy rains of last Spring,

The floors were erected at un- usually rapid pace-an average

Suspended ceilings were con- of ten days per floor-up to the truss level of the roof in a race structed with Simplex Plaster against the rains, but before the Boards suspended by stcel studs roof could be completed the heavy and hangers and covered with two rains came unexpectedly curly layers of gypsum plaster. and obstructed the early com-The use of these materials in- pletion of the lower

insures the greatest reflective value from the walls, an important fea- numerous ways.

ture in Windsor House where the entrance of daylight is restricted by the presence of tall edifices on either side.

floors

Some 338 Vibro Piles averag- ing In length from 25 feet to 40 fect support Windsor House.