IDJ has sent the following article providing information about, I think, a new company on our website, The Hong Kong Match Factory. Thanks to John Hall for proofreading the retyped article. Kowloon Manufacturer Plans Big Match Factory Although Hong Kong’s safety match industry is among the first casualties of Japan’s re-entry into the local and Southeast Asia markets, at least […]
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Hugh Farmer writes. Many thanks to IDJ for supplying both the image and text. One of the first manufacturing industries in colonial Hong Kong was preserved ginger, as well as various fruits, grown mainly in Guangzhou. And one of the first such companies was Man Loong Ginger Factory. The description of the company below, written in about 1908, mentions that […]
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Mike Adair has kindly sent this biography of his grandfather, Louis Auguste Cossart, who worked for the Asiatic Petroleum Company in Hong Kong. HF: There is an initial contribution about Mr Cossart in our previously posted article, Asiatic Petroleum Company employees, a compilation – information needed, linked below. Biography of Louis Auguste Cossart b. 4 Mar 1881 Battersea, London; d […]
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HF: This Pathé film shows the opening of the new one million pound Kai Tak terminal building on the 2nd November 1962. The film includes an aerial view of the new runway extending out into Kowloon bay. A Comet Four aircraft coming in across the Bay to land on the runway. The plane as it is taxiing along the runway and […]
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Tymon Mellor has sent the following article and image about a proposed cable car on that Hong Kong landmark Lion Rock. It never happened and it would be of interest to know why not. LION ROCK – THE WAY IT WILL LOOK LION ROCK – the way it could look in about three years time is shown in this picture, […]
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IDJ: The Wang Chau oyster beds spread along the Yuen Long Creek and also along its mouth in the shallow Deep Bay. They are owned by Lam Uk Tsuen, one of the six villages in the Wang Chau area. The oysters are reared at all times of the year. From November to April the oysters of Lam Uk Tsuen are […]
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HF: The following has been extracted from the Company’s history on its website (linked below). This material is copyright but can be copied for non-commercial purposes. Its plant is at 2-4 Dai Shing Street, Tai Po Industrial Estate, Tai Po, HK. In 1984 Thomas De La Rue PLC set up a banknote printing plant in Tai Po. In April 1996 […]
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Peter Howell has sent further photographs taken during his time stationed at RAF Shatin Airfield, Hong Kong. Here are just a few photos of the small ferry boat that plied between the beach just north of Arcullis Camp.[the headquarters of the RAF Shatin Airfield] Ephraim Kam recalled seeing this ferry in his note of April 19th 2020, see below. The […]
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IDJ has sent the following newspaper report about the construction of a second water pipe running from Shing Mun reservoir to Hong Kong Island, the first being laid in 1929. Thanks to SCT for proofreading the retyped article. 2ND HARBOUR PIPE LINE NEARLY COMPLETED ENSURING ADEQUATE WATER SUPPLY FOR THE COLONY DIVERS EXCEED ALL EXPECTATIONS ISLAND LINK WITH SHING MUN […]
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IDJ has sent a fairly detailed account of The Hongkong Electric Tramway which appears in a book published in 1908 linked below. This includes details of: – the construction of the Tramway, the consulting engineers being Alfred Dickinson & Co of Birmingham, UK, and the contractors Dick, Kerr & Co of London – the track dimensions and length, along with […]
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