Hunting-Clan Air Transport – 1950s military personnel contracts between HK and the UK

Articles, Non-Hong Kong Companies, Transport
Hunting Clan Plane At Heathrow IDJ Detail Image 1

Our recently posted articles about the Far Eastern Aviation Company appear to have reminded IDJ about a couple of smaller British airlines both with a slight Hong Kong connection. First up the rather posh sounding Hunting-Clan Air Transport to be followed shortly by Lloyd International Airways Ltd. “Hunting-Clan Air Transport was a wholly private, British  independent airline that was founded in the […]

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Tat Shing Metal Manufactory Company, Sham Shui Po – belt buckles, bag and furniture accessories

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing
Tat Shing Metal Manufacturing Image Sham Shui Po Belt Buckle B Image From Company Site

Having over 30 years of experience in the metal manufactory, Tat Shing Metal is a well known brandname worldwide. Our clients have different background ranging from professional international buyers to couples who need souvenirs in their wedding party. Our sales team consists of more than 100 years of experience and are ready to provide talied made solutions for your production. […]

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Clipper Cargo in Hong Kong- Pan American freight

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, Transport
Pan Am Clipper Cargo DOUGLAS Dc 4 Loading Bananas Courtesy Pan Am Historical Foundation

Pan Am Cargo or Clipper Cargo was a subsidiary  cargo airline of Pan American World Airways. Initially Pan Am Cargo used propeller aircraft such as the Douglas DC-4. In 1963, Pan Am’s all cargo jet service began with Boeing’s 707-321C. Pan Am stopped Pan Am Cargo operations in 1983.(1) I wonder when Clipper Cargo stopped using Hong Kong as a base and if […]

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Q+A 42 Dairy Farm Cold Storage Depot – East Point – further information needed

Articles, Hong Kong Companies
BAAG Report WIS #24 23.3.detail1943 Dairy FarmJPG

Dairy Farm is a well known Hong Kong company with a history stretching back to 1886 when it was incorporated in Hong Kong by Scottish surgeon Sir Patrick Manson. Its East Point Depot opened as a new ice factory in 1924 according to  a company website timeline. However I can find very little information about this particular depot nor find […]

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Far East Aviation Company – Part Two

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People, Transport
Far East Aviation Flightglobal 1934 Article Snipped Detail Image 1

This article about an almost forgotten company comes courtesy of IDJ’s extensive archives about Hong Kong’s aviation history. If the reader is sufficiently interested in the subject it might be read in conjunction with our earlier article, Far East Aviation Company Ltd. – “British Enterprise in China”, 1934 article, linked below. The first image below has been extracted from the latter article. […]

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The Signal Tower, Blackhead Point – link to Blackhead and Company

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, People, Shipyards + Shipping
Signal Tower At Blackhead Point, Tsim Sha Tsui. The 109th Declared Monument.

The Signal Tower in the Signal Hill Garden at Blackhead Point was built in 1907 by the Hong Kong Observatory to house a time-ball apparatus that was previously located in the nearby Round House of the Former Marine Police Headquarters. [Nick Kitto points out: the time-ball is still visible at the  Marine Police Headquarters in TST. HF:Blackhead Point (黑頭山, lit. […]

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Definitive 1970 Hong Kong Tramways book updated and republished

Articles, General, Transport
Tramways, HK New Joseph Tse 2017 Book Preview Image

Joseph Tse: I am pleased to tell you that the new edition of Atkinson & Williams’ book on HK Tramways has been published. Here’s a preview image to demonstrate a little of the new book’s content: The 1st book on HK trams published in 1970, Hongkong Tramways, RLP Atkinson + AK Williams, Light Railway Transport League, London, is highly regarded as the […]

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Kai Tak Factory Building, San Po Kong, fire, November 2017

Articles, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, Industrial Districts + Locations
Kai Tak Industrial Building Fire SCMP Detail 8.11.17

A woman feeling unwell from smoke inhalation was sent to hospital after a blaze broke out in a Hong Kong industrial building on Thursday. Emergency crews were called to Kai Tak Factory Building on King Fuk Street in San Po Kong, where a second-floor unit had burst into flames at about 12.15pm. The cause of the fire has not yet […]

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