Category: Non-Hong Kong Companies

From Saigon to HK and Rice to Corduroys: the Wong family of Wong Cheong Fung, King’s Dyeing, Corona Textile, and Perfecta

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People
The Wong Family Of Wong Cheong Fung Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: From Saigon to HK and Rice to Corduroys: the Wong family of Wong Cheong Fung, King’s Dyeing, Corona Textile, and Perfecta Wong Min-ching (third from left) with his sons and grandchildren in the mid-1960s. (Courtesy of John Huynh)   Natives of Chiuchow, the Wong family immigrated to Vietnam where they built one of the first and largest textile mills […]

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Thomas De La Rue and Co, UK – Hong Kong banknote manufacturer, 1984-1996

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies

De La Rue plc is a banknote manufacturer, security printing, and papermaking company with headquarters in Basingstoke Hampshire, England. It currently also has a factory on the Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, and other facilities at Loughton, Essex and Bathford, Somerset all also in England. From 1984 to 1996 Thomas De La Rue plc operated a HK banknote printing plant in […]

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Woo Ping (胡炳) – Weaving and Real Estate Pioneer

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Industrial Buildings + Demolitions, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People
Woo Ping Detail Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: Woo Ping (胡炳) – Weaving and Real Estate Pioneer Top: article about Shun Shing Weaving in the late 1940s with pictures of Woo Ping and the “Three Bears” and “Three Dragons” trademarks; Bottom Golden Hill Commercial Building in Mongkok (Landvision)   Woo Ping was a pioneer in the weaving and real estate industry in Hong Kong who was active […]

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Asiatic Petroleum Company employees, a compilation – information needed

Articles, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People
Asiatic Petroleum Company Staff Photo Shanghai 1930s Historical Photographs Of China, University Of Bristol

For latest updates please see items highlighted in blue. On 6th May 2020 information about Robert Rae Hutcheon was added. HF: We have been sent information about a couple of employees of the Asiatic Petroleum Company in China and one in the UK. We have also received requests for information about two more employees. I thought it might be more […]

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Luks Industrial (陸氏實業) – Maker of Etron TV

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People, Property
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York Lo: Luks Industrial (陸氏實業) – Maker of Etron TV Left: Luks founder Luk King-tin (Capital, 1990); Right: logo of Etron TV from a 1988 TV ad in HK listing Luks as its manufacturer and Yin Kin Ltd as its distributors and being available in the Sheung Wan, Yaumatei and Mongkok branch of Wing On (VCRBase)  A history of television […]

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Chow Yau (周有, 1912-1983) – Vertical Integrator of the HK Death Care Industry

Articles, Construction, General, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People
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York Lo: Chow Yau (周有, 1912-1983) – Vertical Integrator of the HK Death Care Industry With over 45,000 deaths per year, the death care industry is a huge business in Hong Kong. While many Chinese articles have covered Siu Ming, the king of funeral homes who monopolized the business in the 1960s and early 1970s, little has been written about […]

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Ross Optical Ltd., Clapham, London – connection to G Falconer & Company, Watchmakers & Jewellers, Hong Kong

Articles, General, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies
Ross Ltd Advert 1902 Grace's Guides

Our article, G Falconer & Company, Watchmakers & Jewellers, mentions that Falconer were the HK agent for Ross Optical Ltd, Clapham, London. The following information and images about Ross come from the excellent Grace’s Guide website, linked below. Ross of Optical Works, 3 North Side, Clapham Common, London, SW4 (1922) Ditto Address. Telephone: Battersea 3876-7. Cables: “Rossicaste, Phone, London”. (1929) […]

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The Hong Kong Excavation, Pile Driving and Construction Company Ltd and the Charles L Shank photograph album

Construction, Hong Kong Companies, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People, Utilities
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Tymon Mellor: The question was, “Who is Charles L Shank and what was his connection to the Shek Lai Pui Reservoir?”. A rather open question, but one that has led to an interesting journey. The questioner had acquired a large format book with 122 professional photographs of pre-war Hong Kong construction sites. Sample photographs provided documented the construction of the […]

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South China Tea Corporation (華南茶業) and “Cocktail Tea” (鷄尾茶)

Articles, Fishing and Agriculture, Food and Beverages, General, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Non-Hong Kong Companies, People, Traditional Industries
South China Tea Corporation Detail Image 1 York Lo

York Lo: South China Tea Corporation (華南茶業) and “Cocktail Tea” (鷄尾茶) Left: Outdoor advertising for South China Tea’s “Cocktail” covering the building which housed the Mayfair Studio in Kowloon (likely 3 Saigon Street); Right: a South China Tea Corp’s “China Beauty” Chinese green tea tin (Worthpoint) While the family of Southeast Asian tycoon Eu Tong-sen might be best known in […]

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