Taikoo Dockyard Managers – Kenneth Edward Grieg, 1926 -1937

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

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

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

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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Yat Ming Industrial Factory Ltd – HK toy car maker

Richard K recently left a comment under our article, Dinky Toys, made in Hong Kong by Hong Kong Industrial (HKI), which mentioned that some of the Dinky cars he had recently purchased looked similar to those made by Yat Ming. Some initial information about Yat Ming – can anyone supply further details about this Hong Kong company? “Yat Ming (formerly called Yatming), […]

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Taikoo Dockyard – D MacDonald – responsible for preparatory construction work pre-1907

IDJ has sent a series of articles about early managers at Taikoo Dockyard. This first article predates the appointment of the first manager Philip Forster Nicholson in 1907: Adapted from the source below: Early in 1902 before the company was ready to commence operations it was decided to engage a leading Civil Engineer from England to take charge of the construction work, […]

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Ah King’s Shipyard during the Japanese occupation 1942-1945 plus possible photo 1937

Elizabeth Ride has come across clearer copies of the BAAG sketch map and key showing Ah King’s Shipyard than those shown when this article was first posted. The map coordinates are also clearer. Ah King´s  Shipyard, Map ref 22485404.       BAAG reports: Ah King´s Shipyard in Causeway Bay forms part of the No 2 Branch of the Lamma Shipyard.  About 150 […]

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

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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Tai Koo Dockyard – 1911 detailed technical article covering its construction

HF: The 1909 Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China…etc, lists AE Griffin as a “Temporary Civil Engineering and Constructional Staff member at the Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Comapny of Hongkong Ltd.” Griffin is the first listed of 26 such staff and therefore was probably the most senior. Indeed the paragraph before the concluding one in the following paper […]

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