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The Hong Kong and Macao Glass Manufacturing Company Ltd – HK Daily Press article

December 12, 2018 Hugh Farmer Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Hugh Farmer writes: From the Hong Kong Daily Press dated 9 January 1886. “In the farther corner of the new suburb in Belcher’s Bay called Kennedy Town stand the works of the Hongkong and Macao Glass Manufacturing Company Limited, whose big, round, squat chimney, technically called a “cone” can be seen struggling to make itself visible above the roves and […]

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Manufacturing in HK 1876 and 1881 – a comparison of numbers of workers

November 3, 2013 Hugh Farmer Articles, Manufacturing

Hugh Farmer writes, in Newsletter Seven I mentioned Chinese manufacturing enterprises in the 1870s. These included two for preserving ginger and other processed food including soy sauce and preserved fruit, several machine-makers, a tannery, a paper factory and a manufacturer of matches, workshops for producing cigars, tobacco, clothing, glass, oars, rifles, ropes, umbrellas, spectacles, tooth-powder and soap, as well as […]