Category: Hong Kong Companies

Zippers – YKK Hong Kong Ltd

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies

The Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki gaisha (YKK Group)  is a Japanese group of manufacturing companies. It’s the world’s largest largest zipper/zip manufacturerer but also produces other fastening products, architectural products and industrial machinery. What would later become YKK operated initially as San-es Shokai and was founded by Tadao Yoshida in Higashi Nihonbashi, Tokyo in January 1934. The company was renamed YKK in 1945. YKK has manufacturing facilities […]

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Taikoo Dockyard – photos of the yard, departments, workshops and main office – c1954

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

IDJ has sent these photos extracted from an in-house Taikoo Dockyard publication of 1954. This was the period midway between the dockyard’s expansion after the Second World War during which extensive destruction had been caused both by the Japanese during their occupation in 1942–45 and allied bombing prior to the liberation of Hong Kong. And the Swire Group’s decision in the […]

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Kelly & Walsh – Shanghai publisher, Hong Kong bookshops

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

HF:  Kelly & Walsh was a notable Shanghai-based publisher of English language books, founded in 1876, which currently exists and has two shops (Pacific Place and the Landmark) in Hong Kong specializing in art books. It is affiliated to the Hong Kong Book Centre and Swindon Book Company Ltd. Kelly & Walsh Ltd. was formed in 1876 by combining two Shanghai booksellers: […]

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Amoy Canning – connection to WW2 POWs and a particular Englishman?

Articles, Food and Beverages, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: As part of my research into the Amoy Canning Company I came across the account given below. I don’t know what the Hong Kong POWs were fed but good quality canned food seems unlikely… Did the Japanese feed POWs with Amoy “beaned pork” ? Who was this unnamed Englishman? How did the latter procure the soybeans and tin plate[s] […]

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Kowloon Trams – Proposals 1913 to 1918

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Districts + Locations, Transport

IDJ has sent information, taken from the book Tramlines…, about several proposed tramways on HK Island and from Kowloon to China. This extract is about proposed trams in Kowloon which never came to fruition: “The last in this series of proposals for extending the benefits of tramways to the citizens of Hong Kong came, not suprisingly, from the Hongkong Tramways Company […]

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Taikoo Dockyard 1950s workshops, plant, utilities and facilities – Part Three

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

IDJ has sent extracts from an in-house Taikoo Dockyard book of the 1950s which cover a wide range of company facilities including a brief description of each and illustrative photographs. As this section of the book is lengthy it has been divided into three articles. Part Three includes: the Machine Shop and the Fitting Shop the Tool Room Heat treatment of […]

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Taikoo Dockyard 1950s workshops, plant, utilities and facilities – Part Two

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

IDJ has sent extracts from an in-house Taikoo Dockyard book of the 1950s which cover a wide range of company facilities including a brief description of each and illustrative photographs. As this section of the book is lengthy it has been divided into three articles. Part Two includes: the Sawmill, Joiners’ Shop and Pattern Shop the Iron and Brass Foundry […]

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High Island Reservoir construction – HK Government publication – official statistics

Articles, Construction, Hong Kong Companies, Utilities

Eilzabeth Ride has sent this undated booklet produced by the HK Government Information Services Publication titled “High Island”. It contains official statistics about: the dams involved the reservoir itself tunnels and shafts intakes and catchwaters pumping stations pumping mains Shatin treatment works trunk mains permanent roads built HK Public Works Dept Directors Principal Contractors involved  This article was first posted […]

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The Hongkong Ice Company Ltd, 1880-1919

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: Before 1874, ice was imported [into Hong Kong] by the Tudor Ice Company from America. The sailing ships with the imported ice anchored close to the foot of Ice House Lane [“what was to become Ice House Street”?] and the ice blocks were stored in the government’s Ice Depot. Ice House Street was named accordingly. “In Chinese, Ice House Street is 雪廠街. […]

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Chan Kim Ming and Susan Soo – 1944 BAAG counter espionage report

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

Elizabeth Ride has sent two pages of BAAG Counter Espionage Precis No. 1, 21st January 1944, which concern Chan Kim Ming and Susan Soo. This adds to information about Chan and Soo included in our article, Bobbie (Bobby) and Frank Gardner and Chan Kim Ming in Macau, 1944, BAAG report, linked below. Chan Kim Ming also known as, Jimmy Chan, Chan Yat Ming, Chan […]

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