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Stephen Nicholas Guy DAVIES [1945- ]

Submitted by stephenD on Tue, 2022-05-24 15:51
Status: 
Living
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Davies
Given: 
Stephen Nicholas Guy
Birth
Date: 
1945-08-28
Birthplace (town, state): 
Exmouth, Devon
Birthplace (country): 
United Kingdom
Tags: 
maritime historian
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong
long distance short-handed voyaging
HMS Tamar
royal navy
Royal Marines
maritime mission
junk Keying

Ho-Tung Engineering Workshop - Pokfulam Road [1925-c.1980]

Submitted by Chinarail on Wed, 2020-05-20 16:17
Date Place completed: 
c.1925-01-01 (Month is approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1980-01-01 (Year is approximate)

Shortly after the opening of the University of Hong Kong in 1912,  Sir Robert Ho-Tung made a donation of $100,000 to the university for the purpose of providing an engineering machine shop for training of engineering students. The first small workshop, which was built on 1914, was located very close to the main campus building.

Tags: 
University of Hong Kong
Engineering
Workshops

Ho-Tung Engineering Workshop - University of Hong Kong 1925

Submitted by Chinarail on Wed, 2020-05-20 16:11
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1926

View of the the University of Hong Kong's  'Ho-Tung Engineering Workshop' building on Pokfulam Road. Completed in 1925. Demolished in 1980s.

 

Ho-Tung-Eng-Workshop.-Elevation-Drawings.jpg

Submitted by Chinarail on Wed, 2020-05-20 16:11
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1926

Drawings showing the Elevation of the University of Hong Kong's  'Ho-Tung Engineering Workshop' building on Pokfulam Road. Completed in 1925. Demolished in 1980s

Ho-Tung-Eng-Workshop-Machines-FER-May-1927.jpg

Submitted by Chinarail on Wed, 2020-05-20 16:11

A view inside the ground-floor machine shop of the Ho-Tung Engineering Workshop Building completed in 1925 for the University of Hong Kong's  engineering students. Students can be seen gaining "hands-on " training on overhead belt-driven lathes.  

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