Author: Hugh Farmer

Hugh Farmer has lived in Hong Kong since 1989. He founded the Industrial History of Hong Kong Group in November 2012 to preserve and share information about the city's fast disappearing industrial heritage. This website was started in October 2013.

Manufacturing in HK 1876 and 1881 – a comparison of numbers of workers

Articles, Manufacturing

Hugh Farmer writes, in Newsletter Seven  I mentioned Chinese manufacturing enterprises in the 1870s. These included two for preserving ginger and other processed food including soy sauce and preserved fruit, several machine-makers, a tannery, a paper factory and a manufacturer of matches, workshops for producing cigars, tobacco, clothing, glass, oars, rifles, ropes, umbrellas, spectacles, tooth-powder and soap, as well as […]

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12 The term “Compradore”

Queries + Answers

The OED defines the word Comprador(e) as “a person who acts as an agent for foreign businesses” and suggests it originated, in English, in the 17th century from the Portuguese word for “buyer”. It is a term which occurs frequently in the 19th century colonial history of Hong Kong especially concerning trade between, China, Hong Kong and the rest of the […]

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11 The Elm Tree Tool and Die Company

Queries + Answers

11. The Elm Tool and Die Company Newsletter Seven mentioned American Louis Marx’s Hong Kong “The Elm Tool and Die Company”, established in 1952 and managed by a David Yea. (However, another source  suggests this company was  registered on 15th November 1958 and dissolved on 2nd March 1991.) It appears this was a toy company as Mr. Yea was destined to […]

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The Hong Kong Heritage Project

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https://www.hongkongheritage.org The Hong Kong Heritage Project was commissioned by Sir Michael Kadoorie in May 2007 to consolidate the Kadoorie family business records. Amelia Allsop is the very helpful Collections Manager. Records of HK Industrial companies kept at the archive include the HK and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd, the HK and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd, the HK Rope Manufacturing […]

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Newsletter 8, 26th August 2013

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The 8th Industrial History of Hong Kong Group newsletter was published on 19th  August  2013 Contents: The Silver Mine of Silver Mine Bay – Part One – Andrew Wood Recollections of a Visit to a Joss-stick Mill in Tsuen Wan – Dan Waters In Search of an Improved Industrial Design: The Hong Kong Rickshaw over Time – Fung Chi Ming […]

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9 Peninsula Spinners Ltd + Hong Kong Spinners Ltd

Queries + Answers

Carles Brasó Broggi, based in Shanghai but currently living in Hong Kong, is researching two related companies. Peninsula Spinners Ltd. was established in Hong Kong in 1948 and became Hong Kong Spinners Ltd. in 1954. Carles is also interested in the founder of HK Spinners, C.Y. Wong (Wang Qiyu or Wang Chi Yue, 1883-1965) and T.Y. Wong (Wang Tongyuan or […]

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Newsletter 7, 30th June 2013

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The 7th Industrial History of Hong Kong Group newsletter was published on 25th June 2013. Contents: A Bygone Industry in Hong Kong – Rickshaw Makers’ Stores – Fung Chi Ming The rickshaw is long out of date, but in days past it was a widely used form of urban transport. For public hire and for private use, it also created […]

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Newsletter 6, 4th May 2013

Newsletters

The sixth Industrial History of Hong Kong Group newsletter was published on  4th May 2013 Contents: New Subscribers The Story of Vitasoy –  Linda Kernan Vitasoy began in 1939 when Dr Kwee Seong Lo became involved with Chinese refugees. He was concerned about the malnutrition of the children and the fact that many Chinese immigrants were lactose intolerant… Sources Queries and […]

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5 Salt pans in Mui Wo?

Queries + Answers

Eric Spain also has an enquiry about salt production in Mui Wo. He remembers seeing some RAF aerial photographs which showed salt pans there. [presumably immediately before, during or shortly after WW2?] Does anyone have any information about the pans and/or these photographs? Eric thinks they may be in a HK government archive. Newsletter 06 Eric Spain enquired asked whether there were salt […]

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