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Hong Kong Builder

Apparatus for hardness determination

Architects in the

Third Metal Age

accept our responsibility for active, continuous re- search. Some of the results of our research work are published in our book, Aluminium in Architectural Work, It contains facts, diagrams and technical illustrations. If you have not received a copy please write to our Sales Agents.

Hongkong Sales Agents:

The Third Metal Age is no mere slogan-it is an inescapable fact. We are in it now-this age of Aluminium-we are in it despite the wartime limi- SHEWAN TOMES

tation of supply. It is inevitable because the raw materials for Aluminium are inexhaustible.

If the

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nature of a structural material is the mould of architectural form, then architects will create with Aluminium a new technique of building.

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