Hong Kong Chemical Industries Ltd – 1960s wax factory producing models of Hollywood stars

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: “It should come as no surprise that the waxworks of the Los Angeles ‘Palace of the Living Arts,’ famously described in Umberto Eco’s comic nightmare, Travels in Hyper-Reality were designed in Hong Kong, the work of Jack Chen, the Shanghainese trained sculptor who joined Hong Kong Chemical Industries in the mid-1950s. The company had built a reputation for designing ornamental wax […]

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The Hongkong Milling Company – the flour mill site after closing – Kuomintang refugees

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Districts + Locations

HF: New Information in red. Following AH Rennie’s suicide on April 14, 1908, the site of the Hongkong Milling Company was left vacant. It’s workers were laid off and the mill was left to various  receiverships.  There was no  interest in restarting the business. A syndicate of local banks appear to have taken over ownership of the mill. I can find […]

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The managing agency system in India, China (and Hong Kong?)

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies

Carles Brasó: According to an article written by David M. Swan, Jardine Matheson concerns in China developed a particular kind of control method named “managing agency system”. Industrial companies were not subsidiaries of the main company but had its own shareholder structure and charter of association. They kept this system in the diverse sectors such as silk, sugar, brewing, egg processing, […]

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Yung Hao tanker – requisitioned by HK Government 1951 leading to China’s requisitioning of Asiatic Petroleum Co

Articles, Shipyards + Shipping

HF: In 1951, China requisitioned all property belonging to the Asiatic Petroleum Company in retaliation for the Hong Kong Government’s requisitioning of the tanker Yung Hao. Further information comes from this account in the book, Via Ports: From Hong Kong to Hong Kong, Alexander Grantham, Governor of Hong Kong from 1947 to 1957. This image is of the Yung Hao in later life as the […]

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King’s Dyeing and Weaving Factory

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: This company was incorporated on 12th January 1965 and was dissolved in 2001. In 1972 [in Hong Kong the] dyeing industry was very prosperous. There were over ten large factories with each employing over a thousand workers. These factories included China Dyeing Works, Pacific Dyeing Works, King’s Dyeing Factory, Link Dyeing Works, Island Dyeing and Printing Company, Winnitex Limited, […]

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Dairy Farm, Pok Fu Lam – Ming Pao article, effort to preserve what remains…

Articles, Food and Beverages, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Districts + Locations

HF: Added information in red. It seems extraordinary now that there was a farm with 80 imported dairy cattle in 1886 on Hong Kong island. In 1941 just before the Japanese occupation of HK this number had risen to between 1,800 and 2,000.  Where were they? In Pokfulam at Dairy Farm’s estate. Dr. Edward Yiu, Associate Professor of the Department […]

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Ping Shan airport – an extract from Paul Tsui’s unpublished memoir

Articles, Transport

Lawrence Tsui  adds more to our growing information about the proposed Ping Shan airport. He has sent an extract from his father’s autobiography which highlights tensions regarding constructing the airport in this location. Lawrence writes:-There’s a slightly different perspective to the Ping Shan Airport in Paul Tsui’s unpublished memoire “My life & My Encounters’ Chapter XVI (para. 7) regarding his […]

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May Ming Building, Nathan Road, Jordan – G/F unoccupied since the 1970s?

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions

HF: I am told the ground floor of this building at 310-312 Nathan Road, Jordan has been empty since the 1970s. Nathan Road, prime real estate…bit of a mystery then. Why unused or not redeveloped for forty odd years? Looking at this recent google image it appears as if the upper floors are occupied. So maybe only the ground floor […]

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The Construction of the Big Buddha, Lantau Island – further information

Articles, General, Manufacturing

HF: The Po Lin Monastery website provides additional information to that provided in the paper published in The Structural Engineer, Vol 73, No. 17, 5th September 1995 sent by IDJ and linked below. The PLM article is divided into a number of sections. I have extracted initial paragraphs and images of particular interest: Genesis – background Buddhist information Design of the […]

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