From
Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent and Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad
The History, People, Commerce, Industries and Resources of China, Hongkong, Indo-China, Malaya and Netherlands India
By W. H. Morton Cameron, W. Feldwick · 1917
In the book, the name for the factory on this photos is given as Man Loong Ginger Factory at Yaumati.
It is referred further: ..in the sister establishment, the famous Chy Loong - the buildings laying side by side - ....
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Relationship between the two factories
Thanks for posting the photos and information, which seems to confirm the two factories were in some way related, although operated under different company names.
Man Loong Ginger Factory
Family stories said Man Loong Ginger Factory 萬隆糖薑 was operated by our Maternal Great Grandfather Wong Oi-chau 黃靄洲 who was a philantropist in Hong Kong, Canton and his homestead at Jiaotang, Punyu. His shop in Canton was at Sup Pat Po.
Chi Loong Ginger was said to be operated by a Wong Chi-chau - I believe they were the same person, my Maternal Great Grandfather, with a spelling error in writting the registry Oi became Chi. I am always keen to verify.
The Wong Sisters were like the Soong Sisters but at the Southern Court of Sun Yatsen when it was centred at the Whampoa Military Academy before the Northern Expedition. Caught in the revolutionary era, some were active in politics while others actively cooperated with the Catholic Missionaries such as the Maryknoll Sisters or the Quebecoise Sisters to run orphanges and embroidery workshops. My Maternal Grandmother was married a Major General.
Lawrence