MOTOR PARKING
TEN-STOREY BUILDING FOR WELLINGTON One of the most interesting com- | pany registrations in Wellington in j recent months is that of Wellington Motor Parking Stations, Ltd., which | has just been registered with a capi- > tal of £IOO.OOO. The provisional directors are Messrs. E. W. Hunt, D. J. ! McGowan, A. G. Whitcombe and J. H. Miles. The company has acquired a central city site. The site has a frontage of 70 feet to Johnston Street and a depth of 170 feet, which carries it throtagh to Waring Taylor Street. * It will also have a frontage of 60 feet to Featherston Street. The area acquried will give a floor space of 13,000 feet on each storey. Plans have been prepared for a building embodying the most modern practice in such structures. It will be of 10 storeys, and will be a steel frame and reinforced concrete building, and provision will be made for the parking and garaging of some 500 or more cars. The building will be provided with electric lifts, and also ramps which will give access, to the floors, which will be “staggered”—that is to say, each storey will have two floors, one 4ft Gin above the other. Ample provision will be made for cleaning and washing and other services for car-owners.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 13
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214MOTOR PARKING Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 13
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