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Naco

Air-Control

LOUVRES

THE WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING LOUVRED WINDOW

* CONTROLLED VENTILATION

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NEW RIBBED FRAMES & FLANGED

CLIPS TO SEAL OUT WEATHER

LOW COST EASY TO INSTALL

TYPHOON - PROOF

Tested & Proved safe by Typhoon Gloria, 22nd September, 1957.

IDEAL FOR THE TROPICS

Maximum Ventilation and Light

Space Saving Quality with Economy

Enquiries to Sole Agents :--

JOHN D. HUTCHISON & CO. LTD.

Building Dept.

ROOF DAMAGED - NACO WINDOWS INTACT.

King's Bldg.

Tel: 31254

The "Naco" Window-Wall of Lui Chack School.

“NACO” WINDOWS TESTED

"Navy Aircraft Lifted 35 feet into The been misplaced. Louvres lend themselves Air** "Roof and Walls Torn From to designs that enhance the appearance Hangar"' .. these things happened at of buildings and they can now be seen in Kai Tak during typhoon "Gloria" but increasing numbers of projects in the Naco Louvre windows in the nearby Dairy Farm Catering Section were unaffected.

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Colony. Their particular advantages in hospitals and schools, providing as they do maximuin ventilation and light with "Quite satisfactory" is the official minimum waste of space, particularly in ment, and how many householders

with corridors and on verandahs, are being conventional windows would have been more fully appreciated and the fact that glad to say the same!

they have proved their reliability under y lead This was "Naco's" first test of a Hong typhoon conditions will undoubted Kong typhoon, and almost without excep-

to their increasing use in the future. tion they have proved themselves. It is true that in certain locations facing the full blast of the wind rainwater was forced through, but this was true of steel win- dows as well. However "Naco" manufac- turers have brought forward a further weatherseal a plastic strip which when fitted along the edges of the glass louvres will provide a resilient cushion to take up the "give" in glass subjected to the pres- induced by 100 m:p.h. winds and

The sale of louvre windows has made considerable headway in the past few years, and they are now being used to an extent which would have been thought impossible when they were first intro- duced. We feel that the improvements in the Naco operating gear has made possible better weather-proof qualities in the win- dows. In a place like Hong Kong where typhoon driven rain exhibits exceptional penetrability, the satisfactory resistance of Naco windows will encourage their use Hurricanes in the Caribbean, Cyclones for purposes where only the conventional In the U.S.A. and Mediterranean. Ty- window would have been normally con- phoons in the Far East.

"Naco" sidered.

sures

over.

Louvres have weathered them all!

The confidence of architects has not

The local agents are Messrs. John D.

Hutchison & Co., Ltd.

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