1960s Malaya Kuala Lumpur Police Headquarters Bangunan Sharikat Polis Postcard

1960s Malaya Kuala Lumpur Police Headquarters Bangunan Sharikat Polis Cars Postcard

Front description:

A colour photographic postcard showing the Police Headquarters (Bangunan Sharikat Polis / Federal Police Headquarters) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. The building is a large modern International-style office block, comprising a taller windowless slab tower (faced in grey panels with a vertical strip of decorative grille/glass-block down its centre) set behind and beside a lower rectilinear multi-storey block with a regular grid of windows in a curtain-wall facade. Flagpoles with flags stand before the entrance. To the left, older colonial-era buildings with tiled roofs and mature rain trees are visible, and tall coconut palms rise at right, against a blue sky with cumulus clouds. In the foreground is a broad roadway and car park filled with numerous late-1950s/early-1960s vehicles — a prominent two-tone red-and-cream saloon car (with visible registration) crosses at centre foreground, a dark estate/van beside it, and rows of parked cars line the building forecourt. A couple on a motor-scooter and a few pedestrians are also visible. A grassy verge borders the foreground.

Back description:

The back is a white postcard back printed in blue ink, with a vertical dividing line, “POST CARD” and “ADDRESS” at centre right, and a “PLACE STAMP HERE” box in the upper right corner.

Upper left: BANGUANAN SHARIKAT POLIS (POLICE HEADQUARTERS) Kuala Lumpur / Picture shows the modern multi-storeyed building of the Headquarters for the Federal Police Forces, in Kuala Lumpur, the Federal capital.

(Note: “BANGUANAN” is a printer’s spelling of “Bangunan,” Malay for “building.”)

Centre top: KL251

Lower centre: PRINTED IN U.S.A. / Pub. by:- A.S.M.K. & Co. / Singapore-6

Lower left: C-18681

No postal markings, stamp, or handwritten message — the card is unused.

Estimated era: Circa early-to-mid 1960s. The description of Kuala Lumpur as “the Federal capital” and the reference to the “Federal Police Forces” indicate a post-independence (post-1957) date, and the continued use of “Malaya” together with the modern architecture and early-1960s vehicles points to the early 1960s (before the 1963 formation of Malaysia, or shortly thereafter). The A.S.M.K. & Co. (Singapore-6) “Printed in U.S.A.” imprint and KL-series numbering match the same publisher’s other Kuala Lumpur cards.

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