Category: Hong Kong Companies

Tat Shing Metal Manufactory Company, Sham Shui Po – belt buckles, bag and furniture accessories

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing
Tat Shing Metal Manufacturing Image Sham Shui Po Belt Buckle B Image From Company Site

Having over 30 years of experience in the metal manufactory, Tat Shing Metal is a well known brandname worldwide. Our clients have different background ranging from professional international buyers to couples who need souvenirs in their wedding party. Our sales team consists of more than 100 years of experience and are ready to provide talied made solutions for your production. […]

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Clipper Cargo in Hong Kong- Pan American freight

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, Transport
Pan Am Clipper Cargo DOUGLAS Dc 4 Loading Bananas Courtesy Pan Am Historical Foundation

Pan Am Cargo or Clipper Cargo was a subsidiary  cargo airline of Pan American World Airways. Initially Pan Am Cargo used propeller aircraft such as the Douglas DC-4. In 1963, Pan Am’s all cargo jet service began with Boeing’s 707-321C. Pan Am stopped Pan Am Cargo operations in 1983.(1) I wonder when Clipper Cargo stopped using Hong Kong as a base and if […]

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Q+A 42 Dairy Farm Cold Storage Depot – East Point – further information needed

Articles, Hong Kong Companies
BAAG Report WIS #24 23.3.detail1943 Dairy FarmJPG

Dairy Farm is a well known Hong Kong company with a history stretching back to 1886 when it was incorporated in Hong Kong by Scottish surgeon Sir Patrick Manson. Its East Point Depot opened as a new ice factory in 1924 according to  a company website timeline. However I can find very little information about this particular depot nor find […]

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Far East Aviation Company – Part Two

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People, Transport
Far East Aviation Flightglobal 1934 Article Snipped Detail Image 1

This article about an almost forgotten company comes courtesy of IDJ’s extensive archives about Hong Kong’s aviation history. If the reader is sufficiently interested in the subject it might be read in conjunction with our earlier article, Far East Aviation Company Ltd. – “British Enterprise in China”, 1934 article, linked below. The first image below has been extracted from the latter article. […]

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The Signal Tower, Blackhead Point – link to Blackhead and Company

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, People, Shipyards + Shipping
Signal Tower At Blackhead Point, Tsim Sha Tsui. The 109th Declared Monument.

The Signal Tower in the Signal Hill Garden at Blackhead Point was built in 1907 by the Hong Kong Observatory to house a time-ball apparatus that was previously located in the nearby Round House of the Former Marine Police Headquarters. [Nick Kitto points out: the time-ball is still visible at the  Marine Police Headquarters in TST. HF:Blackhead Point (黑頭山, lit. […]

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Wong Wah Hee aka Wong Yan Ting – family background – Smith, Wahee and Co

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, People

York Lo has sent information,about several generations of the family of Wong Yan Ting also known as Wong Wah Hee. Wong was the Wahee in the firm of Smith, Wahee and Company which later became the China Sugar Refinery. York has also added  a couple of portraits of Wong family members. YL: Carl Smith’s book Chinese Christians, provides information about the family of Wong […]

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Early HK Shipyards and Graving docks

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Hugh Farmer: In early colonial Hong Kong shipwrights used traditional skills to build junks and sampans and later acquired new skills by building western style ships. A considerable change came with the construction of dock facilities to build and repair iron steamships. John Lamont completed HK’s first dry dock in Aberdeen in 1860. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company’s dry dock […]

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Famous HK Tailors (Part Five) – Other Notable Chinese Firms (James S. Lee, Tung Sun, Tung Hing, British Textiles, Maiwo Yang, Tom Bros, James Lau, Smiley Chow and Kwun Kee)

Articles, Food and Beverages, General, Hong Kong Companies
Tailors Five Image 4 Detail York Lo

York Lo: Famous HK Tailors (5) – Other Notable Chinese Firms (James S. Lee, Tung Sun, Tung Hing, British Textiles, Maiwo Yang, Tom Bros, James Lau, Smiley Chow and Kwun Kee) The final part of this series covers 9 notable firms in the HK tailor industry – James S. Lee which was once the largest custom tailoring concern in HK; […]

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Anderson Road Quarry – plan to develop the site to build 10,000 apartments

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Mines, Quarries + Dredging, People
Anderson Road Quarry Image Detail 2010 Courtesy SCMP

York Lo left a comment below our article, Lui Che Woo – King of Hong Kong Quarries – two newspaper articles, linked below, which adds additional infomation about Lui Che-woo and Anderson Road quarry in an SCMP article. The article begins: Tycoon Lui Che-woo, a pioneer in Hong Kong’s quarrying industry who later built his wealth in the property and casino industries, […]

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