York Lo: The Tsang Family of Sui Heong Yuen (瑞香園) Founded by Tsang Yuet-chee (曾月池, also known as T.Y. Chee) in the early 20th century, Sui Heong Yuen is one of the oldest Chinese business groups in HK with interests in trading, godowns, logistics, financial services and property development. At the 100th anniversary celebration of the HK General Chamber of […]
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Hugh Farmer: Queries and Answers 11, posted 2nd Nov 2013, mentions American Louis Marx’s Hong Kong “The Elm Tool and Die Company”, established in the 1950s and managed by a David Yea. However, I got both the name of the company and Mr “Yea’s” wrong. Sarah Monks, author of Toy Town, a history of the extraordinary development of the post WW2 […]
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IDJ has sent a newspaper article from 1935 outlining the 12 day direct railway service from Hong Kong to London which was predicted to be open for service within a year of of the article’s publication. HF: I have retyped the original article. Very occasionally there are words which I am not sure about, indicated by them being followed by […]
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York Lo: Annam Guild: The Hui Family and Lune Hing Cheong (聯興昌) Hui Pak-chee (center next to the little girl) and family and friends welcoming her daughter Hui Pik-chu back to HK in 1962 (WKYP, 1962-6-19) Hong Kong with its strategic location has been a preferred hub for overseas Chinese traders since the 19th century and within the business community […]
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James Chan: Dragages Hong Kong, is a very familiar company name on signs at major construction projects around Hong Kong. It’s parent company is Bouygues Construction The company was founded in Vietnam in 1902 as Société Française Industrielle D’Extreme-Orient. It undertook its first project, the dredging and maintenance of a 2,000 kilometre canal system in the Mekong Delta. In 1910 […]
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Carles Brasó Broggi: China Engineers Ltd This company was founded by William Charles Gomersall, G. E. Maden, E. S. Elliston, Z. V. Choo and James H. Lee in 1928 in Shanghai. They provided textile machinery to Chinese cotton mills that emerged after WW1 in Shanghai and in the Yangtse Delta region. Gomersall and his partners made deals with important industrial […]
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IDJ has kindly sent the following newspaper article and comments, “This would be a useful transport facility even today?” HF: I have retyped the article for clarity sake and to aid searches. Mr. Felix A. Joseph, well-known and popular local land-owner who yesterday expressed the opinion that the extension of the peak tramway to Queen’s Road should be made wholly […]
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York Lo: Makers of Rolling Shutters: Sam Yick, Cheung Hing, Choi Hung and Others Rolling shutters have been a prominent feature of stores in Hong Kong and below are the profiles of several firms who had been players in the industry before the 1980s: Sam Yick Iron Works (三益鐵工廠) Article about Sam Yick owner Chow Moon heading to Taiwan and […]
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Paul Onslow has sent these photographs of the Hong Kong Tramways’ generating station situated by the banks of the Bowrington Canal in Wanchai. They are from the UK National Archives collection of the Hong Kong colonial office 1869-1910. There is no restriction / copyright issue. The first shows a “View of the Power-house looking South taken from the West side […]
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York Lo: Yue Kwan Trading Company (怡群行) Chinese ad for Chujoto in HK by Yue Kwan Trading in 1967 (WKYP, 1967-12-11) Founded in 1952 by Whang E.Wun (黃怡文), Yue Kwan Trading was an import export firm in HK exporting Hong Kong’s industrial outputs to the world while introducing products from Taiwan and Japan to the HK consumers. Yue Kwan’s […]
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