IDJ has sent this photo which was published in the The Railway Magazine of April 1982. It might be read in conjunction with the two articles linked below. The text accompanying the image reads: One of 135 coaches being built by Metro-Cammell of Birmingham for the Kowloon-Canton Railway, which is being electrified, en route for Immingham. From the manufacturer, P&O […]
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HF: The Dennis Jubilant was a front engine double decker bus chassis built by Dennis between 1977 [Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II?] and 1981. It was specifically designed for the contemporary operating environment (hilly roads and “one-man-operation” with a farebox) in Hong Kong. The chassis design featured a set-back front axle, which enabled the front door to be located in […]
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The Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki gaisha (YKK Group) is a Japanese group of manufacturing companies. It’s the world’s largest largest zipper/zip manufacturerer but also produces other fastening products, architectural products and industrial machinery. What would later become YKK operated initially as San-es Shokai and was founded by Tadao Yoshida in Higashi Nihonbashi, Tokyo in January 1934. The company was renamed YKK in 1945. YKK has manufacturing facilities […]
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HF: Kelly & Walsh was a notable Shanghai-based publisher of English language books, founded in 1876, which currently exists and has two shops (Pacific Place and the Landmark) in Hong Kong specializing in art books. It is affiliated to the Hong Kong Book Centre and Swindon Book Company Ltd. Kelly & Walsh Ltd. was formed in 1876 by combining two Shanghai booksellers: […]
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Elizabeth Ride has sent two pages of BAAG Counter Espionage Precis No. 1, 21st January 1944, which concern Chan Kim Ming and Susan Soo. This adds to information about Chan and Soo included in our article, Bobbie (Bobby) and Frank Gardner and Chan Kim Ming in Macau, 1944, BAAG report, linked below. Chan Kim Ming also known as, Jimmy Chan, Chan Yat Ming, Chan […]
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HF: The following has been adapted from the company website: In 1928 Yin Chi Chung founded his hand sewing needle factory in Tsingtao, China. This was the first such company in China. By 1935 the company had attracted attention from other major suppliers of hand sewing needles in the world. Representatives of the German company William Prym GmbH came to visit the […]
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HF: Our piece, Dredging Marine Sand – Container Terminal 6, 1987 article, says that the dredging was undertaken by the Dutch company HAM. HAM has been involved in several Hong Kong projects including Chek Lap Kok airport, Disneyland, Container Terminals 6 + 7, Repulse Bay beach, Lamma Island Power Station, Tsing Yi Island, West Kowloon (Phase One) and the North Lantau […]
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HF: Our article, Dredging Marine Sand – Container Terminal 6, 1987, says that the dredging for that particular project was done by the Dutch company Hollandsche Aanneming Maatschappij, better known as HAM. HAM turns up again in the report Review of Dredging Practice in the Netherlands written by ST Gilbert and PWT To and published by the Geotechnical Engineering Office, Civil Engineering Department, Hong […]
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Edward Schneider (great-grandson of Carl Ingenohl): El Oriente was mostly a trade name, although it did appear in various names of companies of the group associated with Carl Ingenohl’s business group. The parent company was a Swiss partnership of which Ingenohl was the General Partner (and principal partner) and that partnership owned the Hong Kong company, the Manila company (until […]
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Stephen Davies says the basic story of ICSN is best located in the book, Beancaker to boxboat. Jardine operated ships using the Jardine Matheson house flag from pretty early on – the earliest I think I have dated seems to be from the late 1820s. From that date ships came and went, but nothing that really feels like a JM shipping line […]
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