Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
THE HONGKONG PRINTING PRESS, PART II Pedro Xavier: A New Generation Emerges. On the death of his father in May 1909, six months before his twenty-third birthday, Pedro Xavier became president of the Hongkong Printing Press. In the year that followed, while settling the business affairs of the firm, which employed family members and local Chinese, as well as […]
» Read moreSee: Happy 97th birthday Stanley Ho: 5 things to know about the casino magnate SCMP 25th November 2018 Stanley Ho, patriarch of Asia’s largest casino empire and the ‘King of Gambling’ for more than half a century, dies at 98 SCMP 26th May 2020
» Read moreFormed: 28th January 1930 Dissolved: 9th November 1950 see: http://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/oral_history/All_Items_OH/oha_92/highlight/index.html#p64776 see: Barry Sturman em. He’s writing an article about the company to be published later in the year or next year and asks if I would like to post it on the website.
» Read moreThe 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, […]
» Read moresee 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 […]
» Read moreNick 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.
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