Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
Nick Kitto has kindly sent this brief summary of the origins of the Asiatic Petroleum Company extracted from Shell Oil Company’s website: Shell Transport and Royal Dutch were originally competitors. In 1903, they agreed to establish a joint marketing company for the Far East operations. The Asiatic Petroleum Company (APC) was thus incorporated in London. APC established branch offices in […]
» Read moreAC kindly left a comment on our Q+A45 Proposed fixed crossing to Lantau Island, late 1970s. AC’s comment included a link to a A White Paper on Internal Transport Policy published in May 1979 titled Keeping Hong Kong Moving. I thought this was of sufficient interest and relevance to our website to include information extracted from it in its own […]
» Read moreIDJ: I came across this MTR feasibility study that I found somewhere long ago. It’s interesting how far-seeing it was in many aspects. HF: The study was compiled by Freeman, Fox, Wilbur Smith and Associates for the Hong Government and was published, apparently in three versions, in 1967 by the HK Government Printer. The company also compiled reports around the same time […]
» Read moreAccording to this company biography courtesy of Grace’s Guides, in 1986, the well-known British Fairey Aviation Company, as Fairey Engineering was sold to William Holdings, which then sold what remained of the company as Fairey Marine of Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, to Marintecknik Intl of Hong Kong. General The Fairey Aviation Company was a British aircraft manufacturer based in […]
» Read moreYork Lo: Patrick O’Neill-Dunne owned APB in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He bought it from Betty Church.
» Read moreThe following has been taken directly from the company website and… Company History: Formed in 1987, the company was initially a joint venture between the American waste management leader Browning Ferries Industries (BFI) and Swire Pacific Limited. Due to the acquisition of BFI’s non-American subsidiaries by SITA in 1997, SITA took over BFI’s shareholding in the joint-venture, the name of which […]
» Read moreYork Lo: Pun Sun-on (潘新安, 1923-2015) – Developer, Educator and Poet Left: Pun Sun-on in his later years; Center: Winway Building, which was controlled by Pun’s Sunny Enterprises; Right: cover of the collection of poems written by Pun Sun-on and his poetry group published in 2011 with their group picture. (yesasia) Earlier in the group, we have covered the […]
» Read morehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pak_pai 1977, John Le, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 471: He took pak-pais, knowing they were less under the thumb of the police. John Le Carré’s, The Honourable Schoolboy, is the sentence, “He took pak-pais, knowing they were less under the thumb of the police.” xxxx York Lo: Pak Pai means white plate which is just a regular license plate as in […]
» Read moreHF: My photos plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_and_nullahs_in_Hong_Kong See: Open up Hong Kong’s rivers and drainage channels to revitalise city, expert says SCMP 13th January 2018 When Hong Kong textile mills were free to pollute Victoria Harbour and streams ran red, green, and yellow with run-off SCMP 12th July 2018 Indhhk article – Union Construction Co/Union Contractors (華聯建築)
» Read morexxxx Source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/nbstechnologic/nbstechnologicpaperT142.pdf
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