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OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANK BUILDING

THIRD FLOOR

TONG FING

KONG

TEL. 30932

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CABLE AND WIRELESS

ELECTER MONTSE

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Apartment house traffic is seldom heavy and lift attendants are seldom needed. For most houses, one or two Otis Collective Control lifts give good service around the clock at low cost

independent of personnel troubles or labour shortages. Savings in operating expenses pay for the lifts in a few years. For a more personal type of service. the Optional-Attendant feature allows apartment houses to use attendants by day; yet save their expense at night. For the big de luxe apart- ment house where full-time attendants are desirable. Olis Signal Countrel gives prompt, efficient service with the fewest possible lifts.

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ELECTRA HOUSE

CONNAUGHT ROAD. CENTRAL. HONG KONG ARCHITECTS: MESSRS Minutti & PARTNERS.

In to-day's bigger. busier buildings, hundreds of people and tons of goods are moved up and down every day. The lift has kept pace with these new demands. Its car is well-lit. well-ventilated and fully-enclosed, with doors that open and close automatically. Prospective passengers press buttons at their floors and the lift stops for them automatically. Safety devices automatically stop the lift if it descends too fast. Safety locks prevent the lift from leaving a floor until all doors are closed, and lock the doors before the lift leaves the floor.

Lifts are now easier to operate, too. Both the hand-rope and carswitch of earlier times have been replaced. Now push buttons register "calls" that are sent to an electrical "brain" in the machine room. With the new operating systems, lifts can run at high speed: yet make quick, accurate stops. They answer calls more promptly and visit each floor more often. Each lift answers more calls, completes its trips more rapidly and handles more traffic. Modern lifts handle people and goods more quickly, more comfortably, more safely and at lower cost!

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK FLATS FOR PORTUGUESE STAFF COLLEGE ROAD. KOWLOON ARCHITECTS MESSRS PALMER & Turner

Branch Offices

OTIS ELEVATOR

ELEVATOR COMPANY

935 Peking Road West

Shanghai, China

142 13th. Street

Port Area

Manila. Philippines

5 Malacca Street

Singapore

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