HF: I thought I would post a new article about employees of the Caltex Oil Terminal in Tsuen Wan. First up is this brief entry sent by Alexandre Pinto Marques. Alexandre Pinto Marques: My father worked for Caltex till we left HK in 1965. Our family was the first occupants of one of the duplex units. I enjoyed my years […]
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IDj has kindly sent a new China Light and Power video, linked below. The first half focusses on Hong Kong while the remainder is about CLP’s world-wide operations. A Source: CLP’s A Century of Power CLP’s A Century of Power This article was first posted 7th July 2021. Related Indhhk articles: CLP A Century of Light – how power was […]
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HF and Elizabeth Ride (ER) New information in red. The article 1941 Report – Future Control and Development of the Port Of Hong Kong mentions the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company. The first Hong Kong mention I can find is about the Vacuum Oil Company from The Hongkong Government Gazette of 23rd May 1896. Then this from the Hongkong Government Gazette of […]
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York Lo: Ching Hing Construction (正興建築): Beyond the Family Feud Left: Ip Ching-ping as vice chairman of the HK Building Contractors Association; Right: Ching Hing’s adin 1955 (HKBCA yearbook) The decades long high-profile family feuds between the descendants of Ching Hing Construction founder Ip Ching-ping (葉正平, 1903-1983)has overshadowed the success of Ching Hing Construction, which was one of the leading […]
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IDJ has sent the following newspaper article about the construction of the Hong Kong Telephone Company’s new building on Nathan Road in Kowloon in 1948. It was completed by the end of that year and subsequently demolished in 1976. HF: I have retyped the article for the sake of clarity and to aid searches. Thanks to SCT for proofreading the […]
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York Lo: Evergreen Motion Picture (永茂電影企業) Left: poster for Evergreen’s “Action Speaks Louder than Words” in 1955 starring Sheung Kwun Kwan-wai and SzemaWah Lung; Right: Poster for Evergreen’s “Honor Thy Father and Mother” in 1953 starring Sheung Kwun Kwan-wai and Cheung Ying-tsoi Evergreen Motion Picture was one of the eight leading independent movie production companies in the 1950s which produced […]
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Hugh Farmer with thanks to IDJ for the following report: This extract from a report in the Modern Tramway Journal c1988, mentions several proposals, none of which came to fruition.’ Namely: a) building a second line to the Peak in 1908 c) 1948-1958 extending the existing Peak Tram line further down into Central b) constructing a funicular railway at Lion […]
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IDJ has kindly sent the following newspaper article about the Hong Kong (or sometimes Hongkong) Rope Manufacturing Company planning a rope producing factory in Singapore. Thanks to SCT for proofreading the retyped article. That work is now going ahead with the establishment of a rope works in Singapore was disclosed by Mr G.E. Marden, MC, in his statement to shareholders […]
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Even though Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories had become a British colony, and Macao was a Portuguese possession, people in Hong Kong, Macao and mainland China were free to travel between these places and work in all three. No permit was required for people travelling between these places. As there was political instability in China, many […]
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York Lo: York Trading (玉旨行) Opening of York Trading’s branch in Aberdeen in 1955. Second from the right was fellow pharmaceutical executive and CGCC chairman Ko Cheuk-hung while first from the left was likely the managing director Chan Hin-ying. (WKYP, 1955-5-13) York Trading was one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of Western and Chinese medicine in HK in the […]
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