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.

Tai Koo Dockyard – 1950s general engineering including Kai Tak hangars, tramcars and wireless masts…

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Shipyards + Shipping

IDJ has sent extracts from an in-house Taikoo Dockyard book of the 1950s which covers a wide range of company facilities, workshops etc. The section of the book shown in this article covers General Engineering and reveals that the yard’s manufacturing skills extended beyond the obvious shipbuilding into a wide range of heavy engineering…and more surprising delights. General Engineering Many […]

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Shield Force tasked with “cleaning up” Kowloon immediately after the end of the Japanese occupation, Part Two – KCR and Kai Tak

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Graham Wood has kindly sent the following newspaper article, published in March 1946. HF: I have retyped the article to enhance clarity and aid searches. As the article is fairly lengthy and covers several subjects of interest to readers of this website namely: power stations, the KCR and Kai Tak airfield, and Ping Shan airfield which was proposed to replace […]

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Hok Un power station manufacturer’s nameplates

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Metropolitan Vickers Leblanc Steam Operated Air Ejector Hok Un PS From IDJ

IDJ says “the posting of the article, CLP: The construction of Hok Un power station 1921, Part Four, (linked below), showing its manufacturer’s nameplate, (see the image below), reminded me that I have a couple of the manufacturer’s nameplates from that machine.” When the ‘A’ Station was being demolished a number of items were salvaged for technician training purposes and […]

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Shield Force tasked with “cleaning up” Kowloon immediately after the end of the Japanese occupation, Part One – power stations

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Hok Un Power Station Image 6 Graham Wood

Graham Wood has kindly sent the following newspaper article, published in March 1946. HF: I have retyped the article to enhance clarity and aid searches. As the article is fairly lengthy and covers several subjects of interest to readers of this website namely: power stations, the KCR and Kai Tak airfield, and Ping Shan airfield which was proposed to replace […]

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Chinese lighthouse keepers’ wives – 1930s Japanese preference

Articles, General, People, Shipyards + Shipping

New information in red regarding Hong Kong lighthouse ladies. IDJ: The script below comes from one of my aviation books related to the 1930s China Coast. It’s an interesting aside about the wives of lighthouse keepers:- “Chinese keepers of the lights had invariably been pirated so often for their large supplies of specially refined kerosene, the lighthouse service found it […]

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Hok Un Power Station, a compilation of those who helped restore it at the end of World War Two

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Hok Un Power Station Image 6 Graham Wood

IDJ: When Hong Kong was liberated after the surrender of the Japanese, one of the first groups to arrive was “Shield Force.”  This mainly comprised 3,000 Royal Air Force personnel who had been diverted from their expected task of building Pacific island aerodromes to assist the Allied advance towards Japan. Not all RAF personnel in the war were involved in flying […]

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Capt Sands’ Slip, c1870s, Sai Wan’s most influential shipyard owner

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Stephen Davies: Credit must be given for the information below to a presentation given by Ma Koon You on Hong Kong dockyards at the HK Heritage Discovery Centre a couple of years back, and since supplemented by me. Capt George Underhill Sands (1824-1881) bought the old MacDonald Shipyard in Sai Wan (Western District, HK Island) after a complex history that […]

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