Category: General

Review of Dredging in the Netherlands, HK Report 1992 – companies involved in HK projects

Articles, General, Non-Hong Kong Companies, Shipyards + Shipping

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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El Oriente – Cigar Factory and Tobacco Plantations – Manila Management Structure

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

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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Night soil collection in Hong Kong – honey buckets…information needed

Articles, Fishing and Agriculture, General, Traditional Industries, Utilities

IDJ wrote in reponse to our article, “Worst industrial jobs in UK’s history”, linked below – Hong Kong’s own list? “naturally Night Soil Collector. This task went on certainly during my time in HK primarily servicing Western District’s old properties with no drains or sewage pipe-work. I recall it was all dumped into barges at Kennedy Town and taken out to sea for dumping. […]

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HR Butters – first Labour Officer and author of the 1939 Report on Labour and Labour Conditions in Hong Kong

Articles, General, People

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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Orient Tobacco Manufactory – pricelists and (Central?) shop

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Edward Schneider, Carl Ingenohl’s great-grandson, has sent these two pricelists and an undated but considerably later photograph of Orient Tobacco Manufactory’s outlet in Hong Kong. Carl Ingenohl was the owner of the company and further information about both man, company and Hong Kong factory can be found in several articles linked below. If you can add anything about the OTC […]

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Nam Wah Ink Company – Wellington Street shop closure SCMP March 2014

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies

HF: The SCMP had an interesting article about the closing of a company which was founded in 1948: “Cans of printing ink line the teak shelves of the Nam Wah Company shop, which has been supplying local and mainland printers since before the second world war. But its long history comes to a full stop tomorrow [6th March 2014] when […]

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Shek Pik Reservoir – Tai Long Wan resettlement village for some displaced residents

Articles, Construction, General, Industrial Districts + Locations, People, Utilities

HF: “Across a valley, where village life has been unchanged for 400 years a dam has been built; on an island where until recently there was scarcely an automobile now runs a modern road and to the people of Hong Kong a major step forward has been made towards providing an adequate water supply… ..the consultants chose a large valley […]

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The Orient Tobacco Manufactory Company – 1911 price list including factory drawing and map

Articles, General, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing

Edward Schneider, Carl Ingenohl’s great-grandson, has sent this 1911 advert which confirms the factory location was on a large site in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, bordered by Nathan Road, Dundas and Soy Streets (and also as Edward confirms elsewhere, Kwong Wa Street). The single page advert has been divided for this article into four sections. HF: I believe the term Flor […]

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