York Lo: Wo Kee Cheung (和記祥) and Wo Fung Cheung (和豐祥) Left: Ad for Wo Kee Cheung in 1964 (WKYP, 1964-1-3); right: Thank you ad by Wo Fung Cheung to guests attending the opening of its Tai Po Road branch in 1964 (WKYP, 1964-4-5) In the early 1960s, Canton Trust & Commercial Bank (廣東信託商業銀行) was one of the most aggressive […]
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HF: Please note I have added a comment attached to this article by Peter Cundall at the bottom. Gregory Crouch has kindly given permission for extracts from his article, Pearl Harbor Day in Hong Kong: “Those planes are Japanese!”, to be posted on our website. Gregory’s full article is linked below. GC: Sunday, December 7, 1941, “a date which will live […]
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HF: The following information comes from a variety of sources. IDJ has kindly sent several of the images. Following a meeting of the Executive Council to discuss land reclamation, Bendyshe Layton a British businessman and member of the Legislative Council, suggested to Sir Catchick Paul Chater that Hong Kong acquire an electricity generator. Chater, who was to remain a director of the new Hong […]
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IDJ: Black Point Power Station located near Tuen Mun at the western edge of the New Territories was planned in the 1990s to ensure the security of electricity supplies into the 21st century. It serves to diversify the power company’s power and fuel sources by adding large gas fired CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbines) to its conventional coal-fired thermal power station. […]
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York Lo: The Tsang Family of Sui Heong Yuen (瑞香園) Founded by Tsang Yuet-chee (曾月池, also known as T.Y. Chee) in the early 20th century, Sui Heong Yuen is one of the oldest Chinese business groups in HK with interests in trading, godowns, logistics, financial services and property development. At the 100th anniversary celebration of the HK General Chamber of […]
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Hugh Farmer: Queries and Answers 11, posted 2nd Nov 2013, mentions American Louis Marx’s Hong Kong “The Elm Tool and Die Company”, established in the 1950s and managed by a David Yea. However, I got both the name of the company and Mr “Yea’s” wrong. Sarah Monks, author of Toy Town, a history of the extraordinary development of the post WW2 […]
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IDJ has sent a newspaper article from 1935 outlining the 12 day direct railway service from Hong Kong to London which was predicted to be open for service within a year of of the article’s publication. HF: I have retyped the original article. Very occasionally there are words which I am not sure about, indicated by them being followed by […]
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York Lo: Annam Guild: The Hui Family and Lune Hing Cheong (聯興昌) Hui Pak-chee (center next to the little girl) and family and friends welcoming her daughter Hui Pik-chu back to HK in 1962 (WKYP, 1962-6-19) Hong Kong with its strategic location has been a preferred hub for overseas Chinese traders since the 19th century and within the business community […]
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James Chan: Dragages Hong Kong, is a very familiar company name on signs at major construction projects around Hong Kong. It’s parent company is Bouygues Construction The company was founded in Vietnam in 1902 as Société Française Industrielle D’Extreme-Orient. It undertook its first project, the dredging and maintenance of a 2,000 kilometre canal system in the Mekong Delta. In 1910 […]
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Carles Brasó Broggi: China Engineers Ltd This company was founded by William Charles Gomersall, G. E. Maden, E. S. Elliston, Z. V. Choo and James H. Lee in 1928 in Shanghai. They provided textile machinery to Chinese cotton mills that emerged after WW1 in Shanghai and in the Yangtse Delta region. Gomersall and his partners made deals with important industrial […]
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