The Indhhk Group Newsletter September 2018

Dear Subscriber

I must apologize for the delay in sending out this Newsletter which has been considerably longer than the two months promised on the site’s Home Page.

We currently have over 1,450 articles posted on our website.

Stephen Davies suggested a while back that he thought the site was sufficiently large and, though I hesitate to use the words, important enough, that it should be preserved in some way  in the event of my demise. Of course I hope that someone, or a group of those interested in our subject matter, will step forward to take over the general administration of the site before that happens.

A few months ago I met Iris Chan librarian at Hong Kong University Special Collections and she kindly agreed to put a copy of the website on Archive It which is an archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the internet. In effect this is a photocopy of the website made on a particular day, which can then be seen at Archive It. This will then be repeated once a year in order to preserve the site in perpetuity. The process of copying the site is slow and still needs fine-tuning and therefore cannot yet be seen on Archive It. I’ll keep you updated on this.

If you would like to contribute to the Group I would be delighted to hear from you.

Best wishes
Hugh Farmer indhhk@gmail.com

Below are some of the people who have contacted the Group and a selection of the articles posted since the last Newsletter was sent out..

Melanie Li, Manager – Corporate and Community History at the Hong Kong Heritage Project kindly gave permission for the following script and images to be used on our website Tai Ping Carpets – A Brief History

Stephen Davies provided information for the article, The Isthmian Shipping Line 1910-1974 – monthly sailing from Hong Kong to New York 1950s

Dr. François Drémeaux, Honorary Professor, Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, is currently working on the presence of French companies in Hong Kong during the interwar period. He sent initial notes French companies in Hong Kong 1918-1941 starting with maritime companies. French maritime companies in Hong Kong 1918-1941

York Lo continued his lengthy series of articles focussing on Chinese companies

Po Yuen Iron Works (寶源鐵工廠)

The World-Light Manufactory (光宇製造廠)

Robert Wilson  emailed me, “I am engaged in some historical research and looking for information on Thomas Alexander Loughlin who according to the Hong Kong Jurors List, was a sub-manager, then manager of Bank Line from 1915 to 1920. He was also Rowing Captain of Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in 1917. If you have any information, or could suggest other lines of research, I would be most grateful.” This resulted in our article

Thomas Alexander Loughlin, manager of The Bank Line (China) Ltd, HK office, 1914

Tymon Mellor posted a series of articles about the Lin Ma Hang Mine concluding with

Lin Ma Hang Mine Part 4 – Decline and Closure