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.

The SS Ting Sang – Port Glasgow built, first owner, Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

Articles, Shipyards + Shipping

Our article,BAAG Naval Section Intelligence Summary, October 1942, ship repair, maintenance and movements,linked below, mentions that the “Tin Shan formerly Jardines vessel is also undergoing repairs [in Shamshuipo – but these two words are almost illegible] Dock. Source 68 [word and number handwritten] Stephen Davies: The ship is actually the Ting Sang or, in most databases, Tingsang. Jardines usually had […]

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Beer in Hong Kong – Part Five – the Hong Kong Brewery and Distillery Ltd 1936-1947

Articles, Food and Beverages, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Martyn Cornell has kindly given permission for extracts from his article, A Short History of Beer in Hong Kong, to be posted on our website. The article was published in the Journal of the Brewery History Society, Brewery History, Issue 156, 2012 Martyn has his own blog, Zythophile – Beer now and then, linked below. Despite its title the article is […]

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Alexander MacDonald – Kowloon Dock Police Inspector 1960-1965

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, People, Shipyards + Shipping

Alexander Booth MacDonald: I stayed between Kowloon Docks, Hung Hom & Tai Kok Tsui when I was a young boy say between 5 to 10 years of age. My now deceased father, Alexander Macdonald served with the Kowloon Dockyard as a Dockyard Police Inspector from 1960 to 1965 when he tendered his resignation. Alexander has kindly sent the following images. […]

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Hong Kong’s Preserved Ginger Industry – Dan Waters discovers and recollects

Articles, Food and Beverages, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Traditional Industries

Dan Waters writes: My first recollection of the name, ‘Hong Kong’, was as a teenager in the early 1930s. My uncle was a warrant officer in the British army and, for a time, he was stationed in India. Every Christmas a large, colourful blue-and-white porcelain jar of preserved ginger would arrive at our home in Norfolk, England. This had been […]

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Century Centre industrial building, Ping Shan, Yuen Long – information needed

Articles, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, Manufacturing

HF: The Century Centre industrial building is at 1 Ping Ha Road, Ping Shan in Yuen Long District. It’s a large building, despite being only two storeys, as can been seen by the size of the roof. So a rather unusual design. It is still in use, access was welcomed by a worker having a cigarette outside one of the […]

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Hip Tung Wo Engineering Works during the Japanese occupation

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Shipyards + Shipping

Elizabeth Ride has sent these BAAG reports including the map about Hip Tung Wo Engineering Works. Thanks to Mark Regan for retyping the reports out – some of which are barely legible as can be seen with the first one.  If you could help the Group by doing the occasional typing please contact us. This also aids reader’s ability to search. There […]

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Kong & Halvorsen Marine & Engineering Company, Ltd.

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, People, Shipyards + Shipping

HF: “In the 1960s Harold’s Halvorsen’s son Harvey became the company designer [of Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty. Ltd] and in 1975 he formed a joint venture between Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty. Ltd. and Joseph Kong, former General Manager of American Marine Company, in Hong Kong to design, build and market a new range of pleasure boats worldwide. The company was called […]

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MV Tai Loy aka Chung Shan, HK-Macau Ferry – first steel vessel built HK post-WW2 – updated

Articles, Shipyards + Shipping

Stephen Davies: I have a strong feeling that Hip Tung Wo Engineering Works may have been involved in the building of German design diesel engines under Japanese supervision at Taikoo Dockyard during World War Two. Three of these were acquired after the war, I don’t know how, by Mr Fu Tak-iong who had got in on Macao gambling pre-war. To boost business […]

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Transport by Aerial Ropeways worldwide – 1899 publication

Articles, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies, Transport

Robin Selby has sent a link to Transport by Aerial Ropeways, published in what appears to be a 1899 reprint of a special edition of the Engineering Times, London. Robin had previously been in contact about his great-uncle Thomas Selby (1866-1937) who was at one time mate of the Cutty Sark, captain of another ship, went on to work for the The Indo-China Steam […]

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