Category: Hong Kong Companies

Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory Co. – participation in Chinese Manufacturers’ Association exhibitions

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: From 1938 to 1974, the Chinese Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong (CMA) organized 31 exhibitions of locally made products, to promote the industrial products manufactured in Hong Kong to local citizens and overseas buyers. One of those regularly exhibiting was Fung Keong Rubber Manufactory Co. founded in 1925 by a Nanyang Chinese Mr. Fung Keong to manufacture and sell rubber […]

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American Marine Ltd boatyard, Junk Bay – great photographs

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

HF: Our article, Carolyn Quincy AKA Francis Marion – luxurious boat built at American Marine boatyard, Junk Bay, introduces a Hong Kong shipyard that I hadn’t come across before. Many thanks to Thomas Sposato (TS) for sending a large amount of information about the shipyard and those who worked there. The following powerpoint, linked below, The Legend of Grand Banks, was apparently […]

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Carolyn Quincy AKA Francis Marion – luxurious boat built at American Marine boatyard, Junk Bay

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

HF: Thomas Sposato has kindly sent information about possibly one of the most luxurious boats ever built in Hong Kong – the 65-foot Carolyn Quincy. Thomas is the son of one of the boat’s previous owners. It was custom built in 1963 by American Marine Ltd boatyard at Junk Bay, which was run by Robert J Newton and his sons John and Whit. Father […]

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Hong Kong Chemical Industries Ltd – 1960s wax factory producing models of Hollywood stars

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: “It should come as no surprise that the waxworks of the Los Angeles ‘Palace of the Living Arts,’ famously described in Umberto Eco’s comic nightmare, Travels in Hyper-Reality were designed in Hong Kong, the work of Jack Chen, the Shanghainese trained sculptor who joined Hong Kong Chemical Industries in the mid-1950s. The company had built a reputation for designing ornamental wax […]

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The Hongkong Milling Company – the flour mill site after closing – Kuomintang refugees

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Districts + Locations

HF: New Information in red. Following AH Rennie’s suicide on April 14, 1908, the site of the Hongkong Milling Company was left vacant. It’s workers were laid off and the mill was left to various  receiverships.  There was no  interest in restarting the business. A syndicate of local banks appear to have taken over ownership of the mill. I can find […]

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The managing agency system in India, China (and Hong Kong?)

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies

Carles Brasó: According to an article written by David M. Swan, Jardine Matheson concerns in China developed a particular kind of control method named “managing agency system”. Industrial companies were not subsidiaries of the main company but had its own shareholder structure and charter of association. They kept this system in the diverse sectors such as silk, sugar, brewing, egg processing, […]

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Dairy Farm, Pok Fu Lam – Ming Pao article, effort to preserve what remains…

Articles, Food and Beverages, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Districts + Locations

HF: Added information in red. It seems extraordinary now that there was a farm with 80 imported dairy cattle in 1886 on Hong Kong island. In 1941 just before the Japanese occupation of HK this number had risen to between 1,800 and 2,000.  Where were they? In Pokfulam at Dairy Farm’s estate. Dr. Edward Yiu, Associate Professor of the Department […]

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May Ming Building, Nathan Road, Jordan – G/F unoccupied since the 1970s?

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions

HF: I am told the ground floor of this building at 310-312 Nathan Road, Jordan has been empty since the 1970s. Nathan Road, prime real estate…bit of a mystery then. Why unused or not redeveloped for forty odd years? Looking at this recent google image it appears as if the upper floors are occupied. So maybe only the ground floor […]

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British-American Tobacco Company (HK) Ltd – established 1903 – initial notes

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: British American Tobacco’s operations were established in Hong Kong in 1903 when the American Cigarette Company Limited was incorporated to serve as British American Tobacco’s manufacturing arm in China. In 1919, British-American Tobacco Company (China) Limited was incorporated in Hong Kong to oversee all British American Tobacco’s Chinese operations. BAAG Kweilin Weekly Intelligenc Summary #66, 15.9.1944 [The BAT] now called […]

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