Newsletter 9, 9th November 2013

Industrial History of Hong Kong Group Newsletter  No.9

In this Issue :

• Ping Shan –proposed airport for Hong Kong  – IDJ
• The Economics of the Tricycle Industry in Hong Kong – Fung Chi Ming
• Shanghai spinners. Pioneers of Hong Kong’s industrialization, 1947-1955  – Carles Brasó Broggi
• The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd – Amelia Allsop
• Some useful sources, including the RASHKB journals, that might assist research – James Hayes
• Brief recollections of the HK Trade Development Council in its early days – Neil Morris

Download the newsletter :  IHHKG-Newsletter-09 (PDF format)

Several more articles have been published on the website since the last newsletter but were not included in the downloadable version in order to keep it at a reasonable length. Some of these articles are :

• Manufacturing in HK 1876 and 1881 – a comparison of numbers of workers
• Incense tree plantation in Hong Kong
• Ching Yuen Bean Curd Factory explosion
• The Stephen Hui Geological Museum, HKU
• Gordon Burnett Gifford Hull [1885-1969]
• Q&A 8 Indigo in Hong Kong
• The Shui Wing Steel Company