Author: Hugh Farmer
The Hongkong Oxygen Company during WW2
HF: The Indhhk article linked below suggests some confusion about three companies that had similiar sounding names during WW2 and the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. They were: a) Hongkong Oxygen b) Hongkong Oxygen & Carbide c) Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Time to attempt to separate them. Here is The Hongkong Oxygen Company Elizabeth Ride has sent this BAAG […]
» Read moreThe Hongkong Oxygen & Carbide Company during WW2
HF: The Indhhk article linked below suggests some confusion about three companies that had similiar sounding names during WW2 and the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. They were: a) Hong Kong Oxygen b) Hongkong Oxygen & Carbide c) Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Time to attempt to separate them starting with Hongkong Oxygen & Carbide. Elizabeth Ride has sent these […]
» Read more24 Ng Tung Shan Mine – HK/China?
Elizabeth Ride has sent this BAAG report. HF: The “200 men are now employed there”, suggests the two mines are at the same location. However, Ng Tung Shan appears to be in Shenzhen, China. And Ling Ma Hang is very close to the border but in Hong Kong. Can anyone help clarify this report? Related Indhhk articles: Lin Ma Hang […]
» Read moreHappy Christmas – especially so for lucky Wanchai passers-by
Happy Christmas to you. And for the passers-by in Wanchai yesterday. HKD15 million gone in minutes after a security van spills bundles of cash on to Gloucester Road. At least until Asia’s finest getting working on the CCTV pictures. Thanks to Yannis Baritakis for sending me the article. SCMP article Related Indhhk article: The Hong Kong Mint, 1866-1868
» Read more23 North Point Government Quarry
HF: This is shown in our article, Quarries in Hong Kong – a list I added it to the list but I have no idea where I saw it mentioned. Can anyone supply further information about it? And why was it a “Government” quarry?
» Read moreThe Decline of Hawkers Markets in Hong Kong – but where were they?
HF: The SCMP of 12th December 2014 contained a full page article, Bazaar Behaviour. This outlines the decline in the number of hawkers markets and discusses the view that “public policy over the years has served to concentrate retail activity in sanitised malls.” The article mentions:- – there were about 40 such bazaars in the 1970s. – that the number […]
» Read more22 Far Eastern Prospecting And Development Corporation, Sha Lo Wan mine late1950s
Tymon Mellor’s article, Sha Lo Wan Mine, says “In 1954 the Far Eastern Prospecting And Development Corporation Limited was formed and took over the mining license. They established a facility and started large scale working that were active until the 1960’s. The company was dissolved in 1979.” And the book Hong Kong Landscapes: Shaping the Barren Rock, Bernie Owen and Raynor […]
» Read moreChun Hing [Diesel] Oil Factory, Kennedy Town, WW2
Elizabeth Ride has sent this BAAG report about Chun Hing Oil. HF: There is a contemporary Kwan Yick Building at 430-440A Des Voeux Rd West in Shek Tong Tsui which is the area immediately east of Kennedy Town. And a contemporary company, Chun Hing Petro-chemical Ltd, whose address is given as Fu Yung Building, Tsuen Wan. BAAG Report WIS #28 25.4.43 […]
» Read moreI-Feng Enamelling Company and Freezinhot Bottle Co., Ltd.
HF: First some information about these companies extracted from the excellent HK Memory Project: In 1937, after buying the assets of Keung Hwa Aluminium and Enamelling Company, Mr. Dung Ji-fu founded I-Feng Enamelling Company in Hong Kong to sell aluminium and enamel ware. In 1940, Freezinhot Bottle Co., Ltd. was founded in Hong Kong also with Mr. Dung as the general […]
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