Kai Tak airport – IDJ attachments
em 6th Jan 2019
Hugh
There have been a number of HK government booklets on Kai Tak a few are in the HKHAA office archives
The only one I have with me is the pages attached without the title/cover sheets. It may have come from Chic Eather’s website.
While in HK we produced some dust covers for four of my books (attached). The top three still need them, they are 300 A4 page sagas
Ian
Image 1 pre-runway construction. August 1955 new runway construction contract awarded to Dragages
Image 2 March 1936 Imperial Airways began weekly service between Hong Kong and Penang to connect with England/Australia flights. in 1937 airport out of commission due to worst typhoon in Colony’s history. 1938 details of passengers handled at the airport. The war in Europe affected aviation in Hong Kong, Lufthansa’s Berlin-Tokyo service ceased. in 1940 airport equipped for night flying. in the final weeks of 1941 the airport was bombed and planes took off between bomb craters.
Image 3 Aerial image of the airport showing large HAEC buildings.
Image 4 Aerial image of the airport showing large HAEC buildings and road bridge over a nullah into the airport buildings.
Image 5 The Park Hotel which opened in 1961 according to gwulo.com
Image 6 The Ambassador Hotel. Photo taken by Mike Cussan around 1st July 1962 according to gwulo.com
Image 7
Image 8
Image 9
Image 10
Image 11
Image 12
This article was first posted on xxxx xxxx.
Related Indhhk articles: