Hong Kong Companies – Page 110 – The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group

Lam Tei Quarry connections with post WW2 proposed Ping Shan Airport

January 17, 2014 Hugh Farmer Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Mines, Quarries + Dredging

IDJ : Quarries supplying construction materials for the proposed Ping Shan Airport are thought to be at the location above, the nearest mapped quarries to the site. They were connected to the airport site by a temporary narrow gauge railway. Site drawings for this project have not been found so far. The RAF’s Airfield Construction Branch paper mentions the clearing […]

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The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd – further information

January 13, 2014 Hugh Farmer Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

The first article on this company was written by Amelia Allsop of the Hong Kong Heritage Project Archive and posted on Nov 9, 2013. Jan 13 2014 a new image sent by IDJ: There is also a connection in the following to the article “Shanghai Spinners: Pioneers of Hong Kong’s industrialization, 1947-1955” written by Carles Brasó Broggi and posted on 9 […]

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