Category: Hong Kong Companies

A study of causes of construction accidents in repair, maintenance, minor alteration and addition (RMAA) works in Hong Kong

Articles, Construction, General, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions

“Over the years, the accident rate in the construction industry has been higher than that in other industries in Hong Kong. Although the overall safety record of the construction industry in Hong Kong has slightly improved in recent years, there is an alarming increase in the number of accidents in Repair, Maintenance, Minor Alteration and Addition (“RMAA”) Works. In 2004, […]

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United Photoplay Services Film Studio

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, Telecommunications

Another high-profile business which Fung was involved in was the major movie studio United Photoplay Service Ltd (聯華影業製片印刷有限公司), which was created in 1930 as a merger of several studios led by Lo Ming-you (羅明佑), the scion of a prominent comprador family. I asked Phil Kenny if he knew anything about the studio: I don’t know anything about this company. My […]

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Yan Kow (甄球) and Hip Hing Construction (協興建築)

Articles, Construction, Hong Kong Companies, People
Yan Kow & Hip Hing Construction Image 5 York Lo

York Lo: Yan Kow (甄球) and Hip Hing Construction (協興建築) Left: Yan Kow (right) and Cheng Yu-tung (centre) and David Sin (left) at Hip Hing’s 10th anniversary celebration in 1971 (WKYP, 1971-5-3); Right: ad for Hip Hing and its 3 construction affiliates in the 1970s In the 1960s and 1970s, Yan Kow was a major figure in the construction industry […]

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Leigh and Orange Ltd – 1889 “builders” of Hongkong Cotton-Spinning…Company

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions

HF: A visit on 6th Feb 2014 to the Hong Kong Museum of History led to the following information about The Hongkong Cotton-Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing Company Ltd 1898 -1914. This was the first major cotton spinning company in Hong Kong and was formed in 1898 by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co Ltd. (see article below). A photograph of the works […]

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W R Loxley & Co (China) Ltd – Hong Kong Merchants from 1872 – initial notes

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People

According to Claire Grey’s excellent family history website, linked below, W R Loxley and Company (China) Ltd was established in Hong Kong in 1872 and… ‘…J. M. Beattie bought it possibly in 1900. Later two brothers: A. Beattie and M. P. Beattie joined the firm. The business was sold to J. A. Russell and D. O. Russell in 1919 and under the agreement A. Beattie […]

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Norman Young Sze-kuen, founder of Yuen Hing Hong & Company Ltd

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, People
Norman Young 1967 Image Detail A HK Album York Lo

Cecilia Young: My brothers and I are trying to gather information about my father’s company Yuen Hing Hong & Co. Ltd which he and my mother established in Hong Kong. My father was Norman Young Sze-kuen (born 26th September 1917) and mention is made of him in York Lo’s article, linked below, Chieng Han-chow – Father of the Hong Kong Plastic Industry, […]

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Nee Wuh Tseng company (藝華盛)- Hong Kong furniture maker – including from 1933 camphorwood chests

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, People

Yolande van Daatselaar from Delft in the Netherlands has recently been in touch. She says she is the proud owner of a beautiful camphorwood chest, with pearl inlay, bought by her grandfather in Hong Kong during one of his trips as a sailor on the Holland Amerika Line some time between 1946 and 1960. She doesn’t know exactly when. Yolande wonders […]

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Kwok Tai Motor & Pump Company Ltd – distributor of VVs – village vehicles

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Transport

Kwok Tai Motor & Pump Company was established in 1997. It appears to import and sell a wide range of goods including pumps, generators, gardening equipment, agriculture tools…and village vehicles (VVs) of both wheel and crawler type. The company website shows a few examples: The company’s address is G/F, Tai Fook Centre, 17 Kin Tak Street, Yuen Long with a […]

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José Pedro Braga – J.P. Braga & Co, Hong Kong Engineering and Construction Company

Articles, Construction, Hong Kong Companies, People

The Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography has an article about José Pedro Braga b.3rd August 1871, Hong Kong; d.12th February 1944, Macau written by Gavin Ure. “José Pedro Braga’s father, Vicente Emilio Braga left Hong Kong to work in Japan shortly after José Pedro’s birth but never returned. José Pedro Braga was brought up in a household of his maternal grandfather, Delfino Noronha, the […]

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