Category: Utilities

World War Two – BAAG agent’s drawings from the Japanese occupation, industrial locations

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Manufacturing, Transport, Utilities

HF: Elizabeth Ride has sent information about the British Army Aid Group’s (BAAG) drawings of Japanese installations which were made by agents to supplement written intelligence reports about Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation in WW2. Some of the drawings and accompanying notes mention locations and companies directly connected with Hong Kong’s  industrial history. Unfortunately the pages are not numbered. […]

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CLP- Lawrence Kadoorie speech 1977 – HK + Hok Un Power Station during WW2

Hong Kong Companies, Utilities

Hugh Farmer: The Hong Kong Heritage Project is a repository for the Kadoorie family’s history and archives. Part of this collection concerns the China Light & Power Company Syndicate founded in 1901, which became CLP and finally in 1998 CLP Holdings Ltd. This includes a speech Lawrence Kadoorie made in 1977  to the Hong Kong Management Association, regarding alternative energy sources. […]

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export of ‘kuan-hsiang’ incense from hong kong

Articles, Hong Kong Companies, Utilities

Hugh Farmer: This page comes from the CLP website. It contains much information of great interest to us, including:, ” In the 1950s there were many small factories of leather, incense, paper, ice and shipbuilding on the island”. Secondly it reports that “kerosene was the fuel for electricity and thus the cost was high”. I had never heard of this […]

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