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Grandstand seen from the race track

private lift stopping only at the third floor where all the boxes are located and where the public is not allowed.

This floor is specially given entire- ly to the officials, royalties and VIP guests. The boxes are all air-condi- tioned and some have movable alum- inium and glass partitions which can he slid away to double the size of the box.

The committee room is also on this third floor, while the racing stewards' box is on a mezzanine floor above the third floor, together with the photo-

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finishes equipment, and television and

camera rooms.

The front glass, enclosing all the boxes in the second, third and mez- zanine floors, is a special toughened French glass about % in. thick. It does not break like ordinary glass but shatters into small pieces which do not cut. Another feature of this glass is that it is installed without any in- termediate supporting transomes mullions.

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On the second floor for the ordinary member box, the glazed area of glass

Full view of the Selangor Turf Club building

Far East Architect & Builder December, 1966

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