Category: Hong Kong Companies

The Hong Kong Electric Company – 1889 to the decommissioning of Ap Lei Chau Power station in 1989

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Utilities

HF: The following information comes from a variety of sources. IDJ has kindly sent several of the images. Following a meeting of the Executive Council to discuss land reclamation, Bendyshe Layton a British businessman and member of the Legislative Council, suggested to Sir Catchick Paul Chater that Hong Kong acquire an electricity generator. Chater, who was to remain a director of the new Hong […]

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Black Point Power Station

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Utilities

IDJ: Black Point Power Station located near Tuen Mun at the western edge of the New Territories was planned in the 1990s to ensure the security of electricity supplies into the 21st century. It serves to diversify the power company’s power and fuel sources by adding large gas fired CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbines) to its conventional coal-fired thermal power station. […]

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The Tsang Family of Sui Heong Yuen (瑞香園)

Articles, Banks and Finance, General, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People, Retailers
The Tsang Family Of Sui Heong Yuen Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: The Tsang Family of Sui Heong Yuen (瑞香園) Founded by Tsang Yuet-chee (曾月池, also known as T.Y. Chee) in the early 20th century, Sui Heong Yuen is one of the oldest Chinese business groups in HK with interests in trading, godowns, logistics, financial services and property development. At the 100th anniversary celebration of the HK General Chamber of […]

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The Elm Tool and Machinery Company Ltd – The Toy King comes to town

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Hugh Farmer: Queries and Answers 11, posted 2nd Nov 2013, mentions American Louis Marx’s Hong Kong “The Elm Tool and Die Company”, established in the 1950s and managed by a David Yea. However, I got both the name of the company and Mr “Yea’s” wrong. Sarah Monks, author of Toy Town, a history of the extraordinary development of the post WW2 […]

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Dragages Hong Kong – first HK projects, Kai Tak runway extension and Shek Pik reservoir

Articles, Construction, Hong Kong Companies, Transport, Utilities

James Chan: Dragages Hong Kong, is a very familiar company name on signs at major construction projects around  Hong Kong. It’s parent company is Bouygues Construction The company was founded in Vietnam in 1902 as Société Française Industrielle D’Extreme-Orient. It undertook its first project, the dredging and maintenance of a 2,000 kilometre canal system in the Mekong Delta. In 1910 […]

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China Engineers Ltd 1928 Shanghai – 1937 Hong Kong

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Carles Brasó Broggi: China Engineers Ltd This company was founded by William Charles Gomersall, G. E. Maden, E. S. Elliston, Z. V. Choo and James H. Lee in 1928 in Shanghai. They provided textile machinery to Chinese cotton mills that emerged after WW1 in Shanghai and in the Yangtse Delta region. Gomersall and his partners made deals with important industrial […]

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Hong Kong Tramways – Bowrington Canal Depot

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Districts + Locations, Transport

Paul Onslow has sent these photographs of the Hong Kong Tramways’ generating station situated by the banks of the Bowrington Canal in Wanchai. They are from the UK National Archives collection of the Hong Kong colonial office 1869-1910. There is no restriction / copyright issue. The first shows a “View of the Power-house looking South taken from the West side […]

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Oceania Hawaii Holdings (夏香集團)

Articles, Entertainment, Food and Beverages, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People
Oceania Hawaii Holdings Detail Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: Oceania Hawaii Holdings (夏香集團) Left: matchbox from the Oceania Restaurant & Nightclub; Right: Chinese performance at the Oceania Restaurant & Nightclub from a 1970s postcard. Earlier in the group, we have covered Ruby Restaurant, which was one of the first restaurant groups to go public in HK in late 1972. Around the same time Ruby went public, another […]

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Indo-China Steam Navigation Company – employees

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping
Hinsang Model Of The Ship, Now Displayed In Jardine's London Office Stephen Kentwell

New information added on 29th November 2020 about Percy Richard Cuming. The Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited (ICSNC), was established in 1873 as a subsidiary of Hong Kong based Jardine, Matheson & Co., one of the largest trading companies in the Far East at that time. HF: I thought it might be useful to have an article about employees of the ICSNC., similar to the one we have […]

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