The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group
Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
The following has been taken directly from the company website and… Company History: Formed in 1987, the company was initially a joint venture between the American waste management leader Browning Ferries Industries (BFI) and Swire Pacific Limited. Due to the acquisition of BFI’s non-American subsidiaries by SITA in 1997, SITA took over BFI’s shareholding in the joint-venture, the name of which […]
» Read moreHF: My photos plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_and_nullahs_in_Hong_Kong See: Open up Hong Kong’s rivers and drainage channels to revitalise city, expert says SCMP 13th January 2018 When Hong Kong textile mills were free to pollute Victoria Harbour and streams ran red, green, and yellow with run-off SCMP 12th July 2018 Indhhk article – Union Construction Co/Union Contractors (華聯建築)
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Tymon Mellor has sent the following report published on 11th April 1939 on Labour and Labour Conditions in Hong Kong. The author was Mr HR Butters. Sessional Papers 1939, Papers laid before the Legislative Council of Hongkong 1939. HF: The Hong Kong Memory Project introduces this report with the following: – The 65-page report was prepared by the first Labour Officer in […]
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IDJ has sent this article about the HKSMEE’s first model engineering exhibition which took place in February 1986. The exhibition was formally opened, but in rather jolly way, by Mr Peter Quick, the then Managing Director of the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation, who drove a model locomotive through a banner and around the 300ft oval track. The article also says […]
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The Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography contains an article about Henry Robert Butters written by Norman J Miners. Permission to use the article here has been granted by HK University Press. Butters was born on 11th April 1898 in Glasgow, Scotland and died on 1st March 1985 in Stirling, Scotland. Neither David Bellis of gwulo.com nor Hugh Farmer of this site have […]
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York Lo: Richard C.K. Chan (陳卓堅): timber baron, shipping tycoon and stamp collector Left: Richard C.K. Chan (standing) delivering a speech to the press as head of the Timber Guild in 1962. To his left were Wong Shui-leung of Kwong Chan Timber, Kan Chi-nam of Wing Tai Cheung and Leung Kam-tong of Hip Shing Timber (WKYP, 1962-12-18); right: cover of […]
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York Lo: William S.T. Lee & Co (曉莊貿易) – the firm which brought Montblanc pens, Rodenstock glasses, Seiko watches, Ricoh cameras and Kenwood stereos to HK Left: William ST Lee (second from right) with winners of the Montblanc coloring competition his firm sponsored in 1965 (KSDN, 1965-5-3); Right: Montblanc ad by William S.T. Lee Co From the 1960s to the […]
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Mike T: “The West Point Industrial Reformatory was opened [in 1864], under Ignatius Ip Uen, James How, Aloy Leang and Asam Wan and taught 45 Chinese boys shoe-making, carpentry, tailoring and bookbinding. This institution may certainly be regarded as the first initiative in technical education in Hong Kong. It later received an annual grant of $1,000 from the Hong Kong […]
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IDJ has sent this paper on the construction of the “Big” Buddha, at the Po Lin Monastery, Lantau Island. It took 10 years to plan and build the bronze statue which was finally opened to the public at the end of 1993. The paper was written by Peter PK Ng, of P K Ng Associates (HK) Ltd, whose website is linked […]
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Russell & Company ( 旗昌洋行) was the largest and most important American trading house in Qing dynasty China from 1842 to its closing in 1891. Samuel Russell founded Russell & Company in Canton, China, in 1824. Dealing mostly in silks, teas and opium, Russell & Company prospered, and by 1842, it had become the largest American trading house in China. Russell withdrew from the company in 1836 and returned to […]
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