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Thursday, January 10, 1974
GREAT STRIDES IN LOCAL PRODUCT DESIGN
Hong Kong industrialists are moving rapidly into a stage of developing
and working to their own designs, much to the benefit of local industry,
the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, said today.
Speaking at the presentation of the Governor's Award for Hong Kong
Design at Government House, Sir Murray said he was certain that our growing
design capability would steadily increase in importance.
"We have all the necessary ingredients for success in the development
of good product design," he said pointing to Hong Kong's technical and
business skills, the increasing knowledge of overseas markets and consumers,
and the growing readiness to allocate resources to product development.
Certainly, he added, Hong Kong lacked nothing in imagination and the
institutional framework for the promotion of good design was also improving.
The Governor's Award went to Ampex Ferrotec Limited for the second
year running. Their winning product is a portable memory exerciser
new product which, the Governor said, "displays in its design and construction
a high degree of original innovation."
The following is the full text of the Governor's speech:
"The external judges were pleasantly surprised by the quality of
design in many of the products submitted for judging, and some were up to
international standards. This was no surprise to me.
"The fact is that our industralists are moving rapidly into a stage
of developing and working to their own designs, and Hong Kong industry is the
stronger for it.
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