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Hong Kong Rubber factories during the Japanese occupation, WW2

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Elizabeth Ride has sent these BAAG reports written during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, World War Two. Further information: For general information about the Elizabeth Ride collection, her father Sir Lindsay Ride, and the British Army Aid group during WW2 a very useful introduction is through http://gwulo.com/node/13968 The BAAG papers are kept at the  Hong Kong Heritage Project https://www.hongkongheritage.org/Pages/FindingAids/LibraryCollection/Elizabeth_M_Ride_Collection.aspx Related Indhhk […]

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Shek Pik Reservoir – Tai Long Wan resettlement village for some displaced residents

Articles, Construction, General, Industrial Districts + Locations, People, Utilities

HF: “Across a valley, where village life has been unchanged for 400 years a dam has been built; on an island where until recently there was scarcely an automobile now runs a modern road and to the people of Hong Kong a major step forward has been made towards providing an adequate water supply… ..the consultants chose a large valley […]

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American Marine boatyard – magazine article 1970 – information about employees needed

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

Thomas Sposato has sent an article about American Marine boatyard in Junk Bay which was published in Motor Boating magazine in September 1970. This is linked below. It contains a lot of information about the yard. I do not think this magazine is still being published but would like to be corrected if it is. All photographs are courtesy of […]

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Carles Brasó Broggi book published – the Chinese textile industry and links post WW2 to Hong Kong

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Carles Brasó Broggi first contacted our group in June 2013, so very early in its short life, and in pre-website days. He was then researching for his PhD and was based in Shanghai. He was particularly interested in the spinners that came from Shanghai at the end of the 1940s to Hong Kong to build its first spinning and weaving […]

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The Orient Tobacco Manufactory Company – 1911 price list including factory drawing and map

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Edward Schneider, Carl Ingenohl’s great-grandson, has sent this 1911 advert which confirms the factory location was on a large site in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, bordered by Nathan Road, Dundas and Soy Streets (and also as Edward confirms elsewhere, Kwong Wa Street). The single page advert has been divided for this article into four sections. HF: I believe the term Flor […]

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Multiple transport proposals HK Island, Kowloon and NT, mainly 1970s-1990s

Articles, Transport

IDJ has sent the following account from an unknown source about numerous proposals regarding different forms of transport mainly on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon but also extending into the New Territories. Only a couple were carried out. Monorail proposals 1974 Tsim Sha Tsui – Kwun Tong 1978 Proposed new airport at Chek Lap Kok – Kowloon late 1970s […]

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The Hong Kong Society of Model & Experimental Engineers – First Exhibition 1986

Articles, General, People

IDJ has sent this article about the HKSMEE’s first model engineering exhibition which took place in February 1986. The exhibition was formally opened, but in rather jolly way, by Mr Peter Quick, the then Managing Director of the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation, who drove a model locomotive through a banner and around the 300ft oval track. The article also says […]

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