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: Kwun Tong was one of the most important industrial districts in Hong Kong’s history. In the 1980s, around 20% of Hong Kong’s industrial output was produced there. It is currently undergoing the largest urban renewal plan in Hong Kong (2009-2021). The Energizing Kowloon East Office (EKEO), Development Bureau, HKSAR Government has published an Executive Summary Study on Industrial Heritage of Kowloon East […]
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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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HF: This company was incorporated on 12th January 1965 and was dissolved in 2001. In 1972 [in Hong Kong the] dyeing industry was very prosperous. There were over ten large factories with each employing over a thousand workers. These factories included China Dyeing Works, Pacific Dyeing Works, King’s Dyeing Factory, Link Dyeing Works, Island Dyeing and Printing Company, Winnitex Limited, […]
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HF: The Po Lin Monastery website provides additional information to that provided in the paper published in The Structural Engineer, Vol 73, No. 17, 5th September 1995 sent by IDJ and linked below. The PLM article is divided into a number of sections. I have extracted initial paragraphs and images of particular interest: Genesis – background Buddhist information Design of the […]
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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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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. During WW2 BAT became the HK Tobacco Company as mentioned […]
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HF: The company’s timeline is linked below. Key dates regarding factories. All photos are courtesy of Camelpaint. See: NLPP /Camelpaint Timeline – company website This article was first posted on 30th July 2015. Related Indhhk articles: The National Lacquer and Paint Products Co Ltd Hong Kong Paint manufacturing companies – from early 1930s
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