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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-23 cwt. at 98 ft. 6 in. radius to 2 tons at 54 ft. radius.

VERSATILE-Easily adapted for static or travelling

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.

THILAND: Jardine Waugh Organisation, Bangkok.

HONG KONG: Jardine Engineering Corporation.

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Cranes in stock, erection and service facilities locally available.

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MUSLIM SCHOOL PLANNED

WORK is expected to start next spring on the erection of a new secondary school for the Muslim community of Hong Kong. Estimated to cost about HK$11⁄2 million, the school will be located on a steeply sloping site of 28,000 sq. ft. near Tin Hau Temple Road, Causeway Bay. There will be 18 classrooms, catering for 1,000 students in two sessions. These will be contained in two

Perspective of new Muslim school

reinforced concrete framed blocks forming an L-shape on plan. The lower block will have five storeys and the upper block seven storeys. A large assembly hall in the taller block will also be used as a community centre.

The architect for the school, which is expected to be completed by the end of 1967, is Mr. S.K. Loong.

DEVELOPERS SOUGHT AT JURONG

BUKIT Peropok (Water Tower Hill) in the Jurong industrial estate, Singapore, is to be developed in order to encourage investors to take part in further expansion of the estate.

The Economic Development Board, which is in charge of the estate, has called on private developers to put up schemes for providing a complex with facilities such as hotels, lookout points, restaurant, cafe, camera obscura, and tourist centre, on the hilltop and its im- mediate surrounding area.

The new Chinese YMCA building in Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, officially opened last month by the Governor, Sir David Trench. The 18-storey reinforced concrete framed struc- ture was designed by Wong, Ng, Auyang & Associates. The contractors were Cheung Hing Co. Ltd.

Far East Architect & Builder December, 1966