Hong Kong trading agents 1953 – nearly 60 companies

IDJ has sent the following trade adverts from 1953 for Hong Kong importers and exporters/buying and selling agents. Included are also companies who are advertising their own products.

As information comes in each will be given their own article.

Any related Inddhk articles are linked under the company name.

Allied Trading Company Incorporated 30th June 1953 Dissolved 5th December 1958

The Amoy Canning Corporation (HK)

1. Amoy Canning – a brief history since 1908
2. World War Two – BAAG reports, Amoy Canning (Tinning) Co
3. Amoy Canning – connection to WW2 POWs and a particular Englishman?
4. Amoy Canning – Cheng Yum Kwai Senior Manager, Production, Amoy Food Limited
5. Amoy Canning locations – Ngau Tau Kok Road, Amoy Gardens, Ngau Chi Wan – clarification needed?
6. Amoycan Industrial Centre – Kowloon Bay – connection to Amoy Canning? – major fire June 2016

Arnhold Trading Company Ltd

Blair & Company

Cathay Export Company (HK) Ltd

Incorporated 13th September 1951. Dissolved 17th November 1973.

The Continental Rubber Manufacturing Ltd

Continental Rubber Manufacturing Company Ltd

Dah Chung Industrial Company Ltd

1. Dah Chung Industrial Company Ltd – manufacturer of sewing needles
2. Chi Chung Yin ( 尹致中) – King of Needles

The Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Company Ltd

1. Dairy Farm Company – A timeline
2. The Dairy Farm Company – Post WW1, the Japanese occupation and immediately post WW2
3. The Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Company – HKBRAS article

Dalamal & Sons

Dodwell & Company Ltd

Duro Paint Manufacturing Company Ltd

Hong Kong Paint manufacturing companies – from the early 1930s

Ernest Trading Corporation

George M Lau & Brothers

Gibb, Livingston & Company Ltd

Gidumal & Sons

Gold Coin Brand ( I-Feng Enamelling Company Ltd, Freezinhot Bottle Company Ltd)

1. Gold Coin Thermos Flasks
2. I-Feng Enamelling Company and Freezinhot Bottle Co., Ltd.
3. The I-Feng Enamelling Company – details about associated family members
4. John Chi-ying Tung (董之英, 1914-1986) of I-Feng Enamelling

H Nolasco & Company Ltd

Howah & Company Ltd

Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd

Jacobsen Van Den Berg (HK) Ltd

Jardine, Matheson & Company Ltd

John Manners & Company Ltd

Johnson Ltd

K A J Chotirmall & Company

Kader Industrial Company Ltd

Kelly Brothers Manufacturing Factory

Keng Kee & Company

Lane Crawford Ltd

Lap Heng Company Ltd

Lebel (China) Ltd

Murjani Corporation

Nan Sing Dyeing Works Ltd

O K Gidumal & Watumull Ltd

O Kees & Company (Hong Kong) Ltd

Overseas Export and Import Company

Peking Trading Company

Ramsons, Ramsons (Oil & Fats)

Sir Cyril Young & Sons Ltd

The South China Iron Works Ltd

Steel Brothers & Company Ltd

 

Swatow Drawn Work Company Ltd

Swiss Asiatic Company Ltd

The Taikoo Sugar Refining Company Ltd

Union Metal Works Ltd

Utoomal & Assudamal Company

V Lilaram & Company

Victor Warne & Company (HK) Ltd

W R Loxely & Company (China) Ltd

Wah Chong Metal Works Ltd

Wah Hing Company Ltd

Wallem Lambert Brothers Ltd

Wayon Export and Import Company

Wheelock Marden & Company Ltd

William Jacks & Company Ltd

Yae Seng Hong

This article was first posted on 13th July 2015.