Kennedy Town / Shanghai / Halifax / Liverpool / East Point / /
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John Swire and Sons Ltd. / Industrial History of Hong Kong Hugh Farmer Group / Waters D. D. / Industrial History of Hong Kong Group / Union Steam Navigation Company / Swire Pacific Limited / Jardine Matheson & Company / John Swire & Sons / Taikoo Sugar Limited / Swire Group / Swire Company / China Sugar Company / China Navigation Co. / HSBC Asia / Google / /
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Asia / North America / /
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Japan / Australia / United Kingdom / Philippines / China / Scotland / India / /
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GBP / / /
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Company Expansion / M&A / /
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building of Hong Kong / University of Hong Kong Nigel Ko / Taikoo1 Sugar Refinery / Loughborough University / Polytechnic University / University of Bristol / Taikoo Sugar Refinery / Lee Wai Lee Institute / Rickshaws Kevin Hall / Technical College / Technical Institute / Haking Wong Institute / Taikoo refinery / The Taikoo Sugar Refinery / /
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water channel systems / manufacturing centre / refined sugar products / finance sector / manufacturing / sugar products / cable car / sugar processing / industrial machinery / rail systems / beverage market / date technology / /
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Quarry Bay / Morrison Hill / /
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Polytechnic University / Lingnam University / Director HK Local Records Office / Textile Department / University of Bristol / Technical College / first Technical Institute / Loughborough University / Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre / Lee Wai Lee Institute / Hong Kong Training Council / Vocational Training Council / Haking Wong Institute / Hong Kong Public Records Office / Industrial Training Advisory Committee / Glass Works Hospital / Architectural Conservation Unit / HK government / Asiatic Society / University of Hong Kong / Government Department of Labour / /
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Stuart Thomson / Colin Davidson / Sydney Burt / Edith Chan / Dan Walter / Shelia Marriner / Jennifer Field Lang / Diana Cameras Hugh Farmer / Elizabeth Sinn / Keith Legg / Don Brech / James Chan / Samuel Swire / History Sources Hugh Farmer / Hung Hom / Frances E. Hyde / Ibid / Steven Chui / Stacy Gould / Lee Ho-Yin / Thomas Warren / Frank Watson / Stuart Thompson / G. Warren Swire / Hugh Farmer / /
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excellent fund raiser / Archivist / Head / Director development / Principal Consultant / Editor / Manager / Technician / moving forward / craftsman / Governor / Journalist / Assistant Head / Assistant Head of Special / /
The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group: Newsletter Five 10th March 2013 In this Newsletter, Jennifer Field Lang writes about the development of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery which by the 1920s had become the largest sing