The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group

The business of night soil collection Moira Chan-Yeung, FHKCP, FRCPC (Internal Medicine) Honorary Clinical Professor, The University of Hong Kong; Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of British Columbia; https://www.hkmj.org/system/files/hkmj-v22n5-hkmms.pdf Member, Education and Research Committee, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society Reminiscence: FIG 1. Receipt issued by the Hong Kong Kowloon Night Soil Collection Company (Authorised by the Hygiene Department, […]

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see comments by… Douglas Ward emailed (I think) on 24/7/20 Joan Harrison Reiss, Anthony… HF: Douglas Ward left this comment attached to our article Reiss Bradley – the Forgotten Hong on 24th July 2020. Unfortunately I was unable to contact him by the email address he left with his comment on 24th July 2020. Thank you very much for writing […]

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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 […]

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IDJ: 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 […]

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According 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 […]

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York Lo: Patrick O’Neill-Dunne owned APB in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He bought it from Betty Church.

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York 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 […]

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https://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 […]

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