Nils Eric Amelon MOLLER [1875-1954] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Nils Eric Amelon MOLLER [1875-1954]

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Submitted by ronyanbu on Mon, 2017-08-07 21:47
Names
Given: 
Nils Eric Amelon
Family: 
Moller
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1875-08-12
Birthplace (town, state): 
Shanghai
Death
Date: 
1954-03-13
Cause of death: 
Air crash at Kallang Airport, Singapore

Nils was the owner/executive manager of Moller Line Ltd. After surviving WW II imprisonment in China and loss of his Shanghai' businesses, he moved to Hong Kong. Nils Moller died 13 Mar 1954 at the old Kallang Airport in Singapore following crashing landing of an incoming BOAC flight from Australia.

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Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Mon, 2018-01-22 09:31.

My father worked for Mollers in Shanghai before the war and after the war we were in the UK and then in Hong Kong in the 50s.  Is there anyone around whose parent worked for Mollers as well?.  The only person I can think of whose father worked for Mollers was Rory Gibbon who was around my age. I think the Gibbons lived in Pokfulham - but am not sure.

Submitted by Nick Elliott on Mon, 2018-03-26 18:04.

I worked for Mollers' from 1973 to 1976 and recently attended a Mollers reunion in London.

Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Sat, 2018-03-31 13:29.

Hi Nick, I was very interested to read your entry.  I thought Mollers had ceased to exist as a company so am I mistaken or was it a gathering of people who had been previously connected with the firm?  And was there anyone present who had been in HK in the 11950s?

Ngaire

Submitted by Nick Elliott on Sat, 2018-03-31 17:44.

Hi Ngaire,

You're right. The company ceased to exist around 1980. There were just six of us ex-employees who got together for a reunion lunch. We had all worked for Mollers in HK in the Seventies. The only one with a connection to earlier times was Tim Tucker whose father had been Managing Director of Mollers HK during the Sixties I think, and had worked for the firm in Durban before then. I have his email address if you're interested.

It would be intersting to hear more about your own connections.

Best wishes,

Nick

Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Sat, 2018-03-31 17:53.

Hi Nick,

It's great to have such a prompt reply.  If Tim has an older sister, Sue, I think that was her name, then I remember him as boy in HK. Sue was my sister Eleanor's age, and is in a recent photograph I posted on Gwulo, Diana Gaston's party

Ngaire

Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Sat, 2018-03-31 18:02.

I should have added that my father started working for Mollers in the 1930s and my mother went to Shanghai from New Zealand to marry him in 1934.  I have visited the house the Mollers owned in Shangahi.  As you may know it is now a hotel.  After the war we went to England where my father continued to work for Mollers in Blythe, Northumberland and I remember meeting, I think it was, Eric Moller, in London once when we were there, actually on our way to Hong Kong.  Both my parents would have known the Mollers from the time they were in Shanghai.  When we livied in Hong Kong (this was in the early 1950s) we lived in Cameron House where there were some other Moller families.  That's how I knew the Tuckers.

Submitted by AJH on Tue, 2018-04-03 15:52.

Mr father, George Hammill, joined Mollers in Hong Kong after WW2. He and my mother moved to Kobe, Japan in 1950, after he joined Everett Steamship. We returned to HK in 1962 and I believe my parents remained in contact with friends from Mollers. I’m afraid I don’t know any names.

Submitted by Boojum72 on Tue, 2018-05-08 10:24.

Hi all,

I grew up in Cameron House from 1972 to 1981 as my father, Mark Rhys, worked for Mollers. I do not remember the first name, but I remember a Mr Tucker living in one of the ground floor flats. We lived in the flat above, on the 1st floor, and Mr Tucker would bang on the ceiling when we made too much noise. He had a lot to put up with!

Other families in the building I remember were: Bob and Pam Campion (Bob passed away last year); Brian and Valtrad Lloyd and their sons Tom and Peter; Richard and Sheila Kilburn and their children Michael and Philippa (both living in HK); the Clarkes (cannot remember their first names); and the Wardells.  I think they all worked for Mollers.

My bother, sisters and I have wonderful memories of Cameron House.

Ben Rhys

Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Tue, 2021-06-01 12:39.

It's been quite a while since I looked at this and am now appreciating the entries.  Am interested to know more about the Moller re-unions - when and where was the last one held and are any further ones planned.

Submitted by annpake on Sat, 2021-06-12 01:44.

Marriage &  Baptisms  MOLLER Holy Trinity  Cathedral Shanghai

Marriage

12 December 1905 Nils Eric Amelon MOLLER to Isabel Elizabeth BLECHYNDEN

Baptisms

10 December 1906 Eric Blechynden MOLLER

29 June 1908 John Lindsay Blechynden MOLLER

12 December 1910 Ralph Blechynden MOLLER

11 June 1913 Christopher Blechynden MOLLER

19 November 1915 Isabel Erica Blechynden MOLLER

12 December 1916 Nancy Rosalie Blechynden MOLLER

Carl Smith Card 126937

Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Sat, 2021-06-12 05:31.

Hi Nick,  I don't think I answered your posting but yes, I would like an email address for Tucker if it is still possible.

Thanks, 

Ngaire 

Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Sat, 2021-06-12 05:37.

Thanks very much for that list.  Recently I got a couple of books out of our local library that wre about pre-war shipping in the Far East and Mollers got a very brief mention and some years ago I visited the Mollers' house in Shanghai - now open to the public and you probably know that.  I suppose it is all a very long time ago now!

Submitted by Ngaire Atkinson on Sun, 2021-06-20 19:44.

Hi Nick, just looking at the postings after some time and am wondering if you have an email address for any of the Tuckers? Or anyone associated with Mollers in the 1950/60s?  Looking forward to hearing from you.

Ngaire