8.33 During the year, the Section carried out 1,364 electrical installations, repairs and alterations, and 6,364 repairs to domestic appliances, the repair or rewinding of 596 electric motors and routine maintenance of equipment including electric motors, electric lifts, emergency generators, burglar and fire alarm systems, fans, dental and medical equipment, switchgear, perimeter lighting and traffic aids.
8.34 Traffic lights were installed or modified at 82 road junctions and there are now 247 road junctions equipped with traffic lights and 2,300 other electrical traffic aids in operation.
8.35 Wiring installations were carried out at bus, tram and pier shelters in respect of general lighting systems and also in respect of pumps, workshop equipment, dental and medical equipment, emergency generators, lighthouse equipment, pier heads, search lights and numerous others. Lighting for the Public Works Department, Medical and Health Department and Secretariat for Home Affairs exhibition stalls of the 1972 Fisheries Exhibition was designed and installed. Wiring installation was also carried out in respect of machinery in the Prosthetic Workshop and Orthopaedic Appliance Centre in the David Trench Rehabilitation Centre.
Parking Meter Section
8.36 This Section consists of the main workshop at Caroline Hill and two depots, one each in Harcourt Road, Hong Kong and Whitfield Barracks, Kowloon. The main workshop carries out complete overhauls of meter mechanisms, the reconditioning of casings and the painting of casings and brackets. The staff at each depot attend fault calls and carry out minor repairs. Where they are unable to effect a repair the meter is changed, for which purpose a stock is held at each depot, and the defective meter returned to the main workshop for overhaul. Thus the Section is responsible for the installation, servicing and maintenance of all parking meters throughout the Colony. At the end of the year there were 6,983 meters in operation. During the year 146,563 meter faults were attended, an increase of almost 18% over the previous year's figure although the increase in the number of meters in operation was only 5%. 71% of the faults were caused by attempts to use foreign articles instead of the correct coins. A total of 6,694 meters were cleaned and overhauled, 5,377 mechanisms changed and 828 new meters installed. 684 meters were removed and 321 re-installed. A further 2,000 meters have been ordered and will be placed in service next year.
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ments, and 6,364 repairs to domestic appliances, the repair or rewind- ing of 596 electric motors and routine maintenance of equipment including electric motors, electric lifts, emergency generators, burglar and fire alarm systems, fans, dental and medical equipment, switchgear, perimeter lighting and traffic aids.
8.34 Traffic lights were installed or modified at 82 road junctions and there are now 247 road junctions equipped with traffic lights and 2,300 other electrical traffic aids in operation.
8.35
Wiring installations were carried out at bus, tram and pier shelters in respect of general lighting systems and also in respect of pumps, workshop equipment, dental and medical equipment, emer- gency generators, light-house equipment, pier heads, search lights and numerous others. Lighting for the Public Works Department, Medical and Health Department and Secretariat for Home Affairs exhibition stalls of the 1972 Fisheries Exhibition was designed and installed. Wiring installation was also carried out in respect of machinery in the Prosthetic Workshop and Orthopaedic Appliance Centre in the David Trench Rehabilitation Centre.
Parking Meter Section
8.36 This Section consists of the main workshop at Caroline Hill and two depots, one each in Harcourt Road, Hong Kong and Whitfield Barracks, Kowloon. The main workshop carries out complete over- hauls of meter mechanisms, the reconditioning of casings and the painting of casings and brackets. The staff at each depot attend fault calls and carry out minor repairs. Where they are unable to effect a repair the meter is changed, for which purpose a stock is held at each depot, and the defective meter returned to the main workshop for over- haul. Thus the Section is responsible for the installation, servicing and maintenance of all parking meters throughout the Colony. At the end of the year there were 6,983 meters in operation. During the year 146,563 meter faults were attended, an increase of almost 18% over the previous year's figure although the increase in the number of meters in operation was only 5%. 71% of the faults were caused by attempts to use foreign articles instead of the correct coins. A total of 6,694 meters were cleaned and overhauled, 5,377 mechanisms changed and 828 new meters installed. 684 meters were removed and 321 re-installed. A further 2,000 meters have been ordered and will be placed in service next year.
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