George Sturrock recently emailed me, “I am researching the history of eye baths and would be most grateful if you can confirm that the attached eye bath, [see first two images shown below], was marketed by Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, presumably post 1963 when A.S.Watson & Co Ltd was assimilated. The embossed kanji inscription above reads TRADEMARK, I am told, and HUTCHISON WHAMPOA LTD within […]
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In a recent email IDJ brought up the subject of stink boats following the recent posting on the website of an article about night soil collection in Hong Kong, linked below. If you can add further information about these boats or an image of one please send it into the site. IDJ: From recollections of transportation to my workplaces via […]
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HF: Our recently posted biography, Dadabhoy Rustomjee Banaji and Maneckjee Rustomjee Banaji, the brothers behind the Canton and Hong Kong trading firm, D. & M. Rustomjee, mentions that the brothers “operated a hugely profitable firm called D. & M. Rustomjee, based first in Canton and later in Hong Kong.” I am looking for information about, and images of, this company […]
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H.F. Our biography of Sir Robert Hormus Kotewall, founder of R.H.Kotewall & Co. and connected to many other Hong Kong companies, linked below includes: Kotewall left government service in 1916 to set up a firm trading in imported textiles and paper. This firm, R.H. Kotewall & Co., flourished, and he became the director of several other companies, including Wo Shing, […]
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Our article, Tse Tsan Tai, 謝纘泰, co-founder of the South China Morning Post and…, mentions that in 1890 Tse joined the Public Works Department [in Hong Kong] leaving in 1900 to become compradore of Boyd Kaye & a Co., an import-export firm. I have been unable to access any information about Boyd, Kaye & Company in Hong Kong and wonder […]
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A short 1984, Hong Kong Government Publication about Hong Kong’s Country Parks contains this intriguing and amusing information: The most recent development in Plover Cove Country Park is the construction of the Plover Cove Reservoir. The idea of enclosing a bay and a string of islands to form a reservoir was born in the mind of the late T.O.Morgan, then […]
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HF: Carles Brasó Broggi’s, Shanghai Spinners: Pioneers of Hong Kong’s industrialization, 1947-1955, first published in the Indhhk email Newsletter 9 sent out on 9th November 2013 is one of the most visited website articles. The article mentions Wyler Textiles Limited (伟伦纺织有限公司) a couple of times. There is also a Wyler mage from a 1956 Trade Annual. I come across the company […]
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IDJ asks if anyone can supply information about the Reiss & Bradley Group of Companies. IDJ says I came across the attached family tree, shown below, in the Hong Kong Historical Aircraft Association (HKHAA) files recently. The tree shows that R&B was a founding element of Far East Aviation Ltd HF: There also appears to be a direct connection to the Far East […]
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The SCMP of 2nd March 2018 has in its Remember A Day feature this extract: “The serene resort-like residential development Discovery Bay was only starting to take shape 40 years ago this week when the government began to explore the feasibility of building a fixed crossing to Lantau Island.” The Tsing Ma bridge and its neighbour the Kap Shui Mun […]
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Joe Terry asks Have you any information on an enterprise called Tsing Yi Island Industries Ltd, a concrete products manufacturer for the construction industry in operation during the period of 1964 to 1968, production site managed by Raphael Chow, a Singapore national.? The image shown on the Home Page of this article is of HK-China-Concrete-Co-Ltd’s Yau Tong batching plant. This article […]
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