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PRODUCTION UP

COSTS DOWN

with the VERSATILE

Manufactured by

BABCOCK

Licensed and designed by

WEITZ

X1190

TOWER CRANE

Where BABCOCK WEITZ tower cranes go up, build- ing costs come down.

The low price is just one of the many advantages of the new Babcock Weitz X1190 30 ton/metre universal crane, British-built by Babcock & Wilcox.

If you are concerned with the building of medium size flats or office blocks or with light civil engineering, consider these features of the X1190:

CAPACITY-1 ton at 98 ft. 6 in. radius to 2 tons at 54 ft. radius.

VERSATILE—Easily adapted for static travelling or climbing installation.

EASY ERECTION-well-proved patented mechanical system ensures speedy, safe erection. Simultaneous basculing and telescoping saves time and space. Structural parts interchangeable.

MINIMUM SPACE REQUIRED by the compact tower base.

AFTER-SALES SERVICE-Every Babcock Weitz crane is backed by first-class service for erection, maintenance, inspection and technical advice.

For further details, write or phone: BABCOCK & WILCOX (OPERATIONS) LTD. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT 165 GREAT DOVER ST., LONDON S.E.1. TELEPHONE: HOP 5500. MALAYSIA : Jardine Waugh Organisation — *Singapore, Kuala

Lumpur, Kuching, Jesselton.

THAILAND: Jardine Waugh Organisation, Bangkok. HONG KONG : Jardine Engineering Corporation.

* Cranes in stock, erection and service facilities locally available.

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Concord, NSW, is supplying 200 tons of bronze panels for cladding the external columns and other accessories. High costs in the past have severely restricted the use of bronze for such application. But new techniques developed by the company have produced a compara- tively economical lightweight cladding. Its has an ebony oxidized finish and the effects of weathering will create the traditional dark brown colour unique to copper alloys.

Techniques for pressing the cladding and for its erection have been developed in conjunction with Malleys Ltd. of Rosebery, NSW, which is forming the wide range of panels needed for the job, and H.T. Worrall Pty. Ltd., Mascot, NSW, the erection ontractor. Pro- vision for the external installation of air conditioning ducts, also to be clad with bronze panels, has overcome many of the design problems.

and for New York Skyscraper

BRONZE cladding, but this time bronze toned aluminium, will also be used on a 45-storey skyscraper soon to be erected at New York's Columbus Circle.

The US$20 million building is scheduled for com- pletion in the spring of 1967. It will have the building

Sketch of proposed Columbus Circle tower

core in a narrow shaft on the west side of the structure; this will be faced in white marble.

The building will contain 500,000 sq. ft. of office space, with about 12,300 sq. ft. on each floor. Harold M. Liebman and Associates, New York, are the archi- tects, and Forteyn Management Corp. are the developers.

10-Day Factory Made Homes

IN ten days a squad of six men can build a house from ready-made factory components, manhandled into posi- tion without the use of mechanical lifting equipment.

The first four two-storey homes of this type have been erected in Scotland by Weir Housing Corporation, Ltd., Coatbridge, Lanarks.

Roofs, walls, stairways and wall sections complete with doors or windows are produced as components. They can be used in combination to build complete detached, semi-detached, or terrace houses to the design of the maker or that of individual architects.

Far East Architect & Builder August, 1965

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