The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group
Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
Mak Ho Ying has kindly translated the advert below: 1st row large-size text “Tai Hing Knitting Factory” 2nd row text “High quality products ★ considerate pricing” 3rd row text: this is to highlight the three brands of knitwear and the yarn socks “Pineapple Brand” “Durian Brand knitwear” “Scissors Brand” “Stylish yarn socks” Last row text: The factory’s address “No. 275 […]
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Ian Wolfe: This 1949 photo shows, in the orange triangle, the newly built China Oxygen and Acetylene Co., Ltd compound. The company was a subsidiary of the British Oxygen Company Ltd. [The yellow oblong shows an aerial ropeway within the Green Island Cement complex.] “Pursuing their policy of post-war expansion, the British Oxygen Company Ltd. some time ago formed a subsidiary […]
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Elizabeth Ride These two BAAG agent’s drawings of a Hongkong Rubber Factory were probably published in a Kweillin Weekly Intelligence Summary (KWIZ). I cannot currently access the report which may well have accompanied them saying what the Japanese were using the factory for. The drawings are dated 22 June (or Jan?) 1944. HF: Immediately pre-WW2 there were several rubber companies in Hong Kong, seven […]
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HF: A mixed bag of information stretching from the late 19th century to around 1950. And two company names – the HK Steam Laundry Company and the Steam Laundry Company. Any further information about this company/ies would be welcomed. I believe HK Steam Laundry was owned by the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd which in 1923 had changed its name […]
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HF: Carl Ingenohl operated cigar manufacturing companies in both the Philippines and Hong Kong under the trade name La Perla del Oriente. In Hong Kong Ingenohl ran the Orient Tobacco Manufactury Company which had a factory in Yau Ma Tei. The newspaper article below mentions his ownership of the Hongkong Tobacco Manufactury which I believe was actually the Yau Ma […]
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HF: The Energising Kowloon East Office (EKEO) “is formulating strategies to sustain the industrial culture in Kowloon East” ie Kwun Tong, Kowloon Bay and the Kai Tak airport site. EKEO says “You are encouraged to take part in this meaningful process… Your participation will make a difference!” Indeed. Many thanks to IDJ for sending “The Spirit of Creation” link and […]
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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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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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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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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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