Category: Manufacturing

Rope Making in Hong Kong – Sai Ying Pun 1970s + Kowloon 1945

Articles, Manufacturing, Traditional Industries

Hugh Farmer: IDJ has sent the following image and extract. I added the map. New information in red. Here’s the location of Fuk Sau Lane, Sai Ying Pun.   IDJ has also sent this ” interesting clear and detailed view of rope making in a Kowloon street in August 1945.” https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/7742172682/sizes/l/in/set-72157630976475156/ Related Indhhk articles The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co Ltd. […]

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World War Two – BAAG reports – Batch 2 – HK industry, factories, mines, CLP…

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Mines, Quarries + Dredging, Utilities

Elizabeth Ride has sent a further sample of British Army Aid Group reports sent during during the Japanese occupation of HK in WW2. HF: There are many industrial references. Well known companies such as China Light & Power as well as smaller concerns such as those producing oil ,boat diesel engines and acids. Mines reopened by the Japanese. What was […]

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HK Oxygen – HK Oxygen & Carbide – Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Companies WW2

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: Elizabeth Ride’s (ER) second comment (ER 2) suggests that there  were three similarly named companies in HK during the Japanese occupation in WW2. I am assuming that the BAAG agents’ reports mentioning ‘factory’ is because these buildings were of primary interest rather the companies themselves. If so we have these: a) The Hong Kong Oxygen Company b) The Hong […]

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UDL Argos Engineering & Heavy Industries

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Transport

HF:  In the article Ship breaking in Hong Kong – Junk Bay 將軍澳 – late 1970s IDJ mentions Argos which was a contract labour supplier to China Light & Power for a long period and ran their own fleet of double-decker buses to get their people to the Castle Peak Power Station site when it was under construction. From the company website: […]

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Brick Glass Cones UK – connection to Kennedy Town glass manufacturer

Articles, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies

HF: The Indhhk article  The Hong Kong and Macao Glass Manufacturing Company Ltd in Kennedy Town contains an extract found by moddsey from the Hong Kong Daily Press of 9th Jan 1886. This mentions the Glassworks appearance including: “The western side is bounded by the glasshouse proper, a square building, from the centre of the roof of which is seen […]

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Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd – ships built, wrecked during WW2

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF with thanks to Mike T: The excellent website wrecksite lists 26 ships built at the HK & Whampoa Docks which were subsequently permanently disabled/sunk during World War 2. At the time of their demise these ships were Australian, British, Dutch, German, Japanese, Norwegian or Thai. The ships were lost because of:- “air-raid, foundered, gunfire-shelled, mined, ran aground (wrecked), scuttled […]

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Four HK Shipyards – information needed

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF:  I have posted, backdated to 10th May 2014, four articles with very brief information about: 1) Tai Koo Dockyards 2) Kwong Hip Lung Shipyard 3) Taikoktsui Shipyards 4) Wing On Shing Shipyard Any other information about these companies would be welcomed. And about other ship/dock yards in Hong Kong. Related Indhhk articles: Early HK Shipyards and Graving Docks Bailey’s […]

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World War Two – 1944 BAAG reports – Four HK Shipyards

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: Elizabeth Ride has sent information about four Shipyards from BAAG reports made during the Japanese occupation. This information is of interest with regard to what was (or wasn’t ) happening in them in 1944. The first Taikoo Docks is well known. The other three much less so. Kwong Hip Lung Shipyard, Wing On Shing Shipyard and Tai Kok Tsui […]

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World War Two – BAAG agent’s drawings from the Japanese occupation, industrial locations

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Transport, Utilities

HF: Elizabeth Ride has sent information about the British Army Aid Group’s (BAAG) drawings of Japanese installations which were made by agents to supplement written intelligence reports about Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation in WW2. Some of the drawings and accompanying notes mention locations and companies directly connected with Hong Kong’s  industrial history. Unfortunately the pages are not numbered. […]

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Tai Ping Carpets International Ltd, 1956 to the early 1970s

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

HF: Tai Ping Carpets was founded in 1956 by a group of seven friends. Each of the seed investors contributed HKD10,000 to build  a factory to employ mainland refugees. I have found no information about where this factory was. No doubt the Anthony Lawrence book about the company mentioned at the end of this article would provide great detail regarding […]

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