Category: Hong Kong Companies

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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The Sternwheeler Nanning 1 – built by Geo. Fenwick, Hong Kong 1900

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

Stephen Davies has introduced us to several ships built in Hong Kong, which were employed on HK-China, Macau-China or internal China routes, through the articles linked below. Here is further information about one such vessel, the Nanning 1, extracted from a website suggested by Stephen: Built for the Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steamship Co. Delivered in 1900. Shipyard G. […]

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Ling Nam Hardware Manufacturing Company – torches / flashlights – initial notes

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: There is a record of Ling Nam Hardware being established in 1929. However, it appears to have been been incorporated on 13th October 1939 and dissolved on 5th September 2003. York Lo: The founder of Ling Nam was Chan Ting-yu (陳定宇). He was Cantonese and also founded another flashlight company in Shanghai and according to a 1935 document about Chinese […]

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HK Iron and Steel companies in 1963, information wanted…

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: This extract about Iron and Steel comes from a 1963 report on The Mineral Industry of Hong Kong by JM West. The report mentions several companies we have no information about: Fuji Marden – a joint venture between Fuji Iron Works of Japan and Wheelock Marden of Hong Kong Sigma Shipping which in that year was operating a re-rolling […]

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Taikoo Dockyard Managers – Kenneth Edward Grieg, 1926 -1937

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, People, Shipyards + Shipping

IDJ has sent a series of articles about managers at Taikoo Dockyard: “Kenneth Edward Grieg, was born in Perth in 1882 and went to school at Perth Academy. At sixteen he entered on an engineering apprenticeship in the Caledonian Railway locomotive shops at Perth but went to the North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. at Wallsend-on-Tyne in 1900 to complete his […]

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Dah Chung Industrial Company Ltd – manufacturer of sewing needles

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

HF: The following has been adapted from the company website: In 1928 Yin Chi Chung founded his hand sewing needle factory in Tsingtao, China. This was the first such company in China. By 1935 the company had attracted attention from other major suppliers of hand sewing needles in the world. Representatives of the German company William Prym GmbH came to visit the […]

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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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Pre-WW2 Industrialisation – a large range of HK companies, date of establishment, workers, size of premises

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: I found some very raw information listing “selected examples” of companies in pre-WW2 Hong Kong in the book, Hong Kong’s History: State and Society Under Colonial Rule. We already know something about some of these concerns – Indhhk articles are linked Nanyang Brother Tobacco Co. Ltd Li Man Hing Kwok Weaving / Manufacturing Co. Ltd Ng Jim Kai – Financier of the Chinese […]

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