UNIQUE NEW HOTEL
May Be Lifted With Jacks London's most modern hotel, which has cost nearly £2,000,000 to erect and equip, is now ready for occupation. Recently traffic in the West End was held up for miles so that the hundreds of guests invited to the inaugural luncheon of the Dorchester, in Park Lane, could get to their destination. Ono of tho wonders of the new hotel is that the greater part of it can be raised bodily by jacks. This amazing fact was made public by Sir Malcolm McAlpine, who said that should it be necessary to add to the Dorchester there would be no need to build on to the roof. The whole of the building from the first floor upward can be lifted —it is a gigantic monolith of reinforced concrete. The first floor roof is three feet thick and weighs 300 tons. New stories would be put in between the first and second floors.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 221, 15 June 1931, Page 15
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158UNIQUE NEW HOTEL Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 221, 15 June 1931, Page 15
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