The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group

IDJ has sent the following newspaper article about an ex director of Reiss, Bradley and Company in Hong Kong. HF: I have retyped the article to enhance clarity and the ability to search. I apologize for the quality of the image which accompanied the China Mail article, though I have something of a soft spot for murky photographs. Thanks to […]

York Lo: Wah Keong Rubber Manufactory (華強膠廠) Fong Tse-yan delivering a speech at the Lui Fong Kwong Association dinner at the State Restaurant in 1961 (WKYP, 1961-4-20) Wah Keong Rubber Manufactory was one of the top five manufacturers of rubber shoes alongside Fung Keong, Canton Bros, Continental and Hong Kong out of the over 100 players in the industry in […]

Dheeraj Khiytani has kindly sent this dinner menu from the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company ship Loong Sang, dated October 1901, which he recently purchased. A brief history of the Loong Sang. The Loong Sang was built in 1896 by William Gray and Company of Central Marine Engineering Works, West Hartlepool, UK, which was was a shipbuilding firm from 1874 to […]

IDJ has sent the following newspaper article about the launching of R.C.S. Viti, built at Taikoo Dockyard in Hong Kong. ROYAL COLONIAL SHIP VITI LAUNCHED BY LADY NORTHCOTE AT TAIKOO Built To Order Of The Government Of Fiji As Administrative Vessel Constructed by the Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. of Hongkong Ltd., to the order and special requirements of the […]

York Lo: Charm Hoi-sang (湛海生)and Harbour Engineering and Hoi Sing Holdings Reclamation and the other water-related construction work such as the building of piers, reservoirs, pumping stations and seawalls have been an important part of the construction business in HK. Charm Hoi-sang, whose name contained the Chinese character for sea, was a key figure in this aspect of the industry […]