1941-01-20 — Page 91

HONG KONG CENTENARY NUMBER

1841

Shipping

(Continued From Page 40.)

2.0

The Bank Line (China) Ltd.. which first commenced business in Hong Kong in 1909, being estab- lished then in the Colony as Bank Line Ltd., is closely associat- & Co.. ed with Andrew Weir Managers of the well-known Bank

Following the

52 Lailing ships. trend of the times, the firm par- from ticipated in the transition sail to steam, and a few years later acquired a large fleet of modern steamers designed to cater their expanding trades.

for

Chce again, moving with

the

CHINA MAIL, PAGE 43

This picture shows and her vic time of the 1937 typhoon, the An

Lor which mounte:1

Line Reet of steamers and moto. vessels.

Established nea. ly sixty years ogo in Glasgow by Andrew Wew (now Lord Inverlurth) as a ship and misurance brokerage Arm, Andrew Weir & Co, became in a very few years the owners of the largest British fleet of sailing ves- sels, with an ownership of some

the

Praya.

were

1:nes. Andrew Weir & Co one of the first firms to appreciate the potentialities of the internal combustion engine, and they are Low the owners of a feel of motor

in Vissels largest by far,

both nubers and tonnage, than any o her British ownership.

With the transition to steam, th firm's interests in the Far Eas

The .s. Wingsang, one of

the

modern ships of the Indo-China fle ct.

pidly increased until, in 1909,

for them became necessary establish their own branch office

m Hong Kong to control their Far Pas en connections

Far East for Messrs. Ellorman & Bucknall Steamship Co., Ltd., who operate regular services between the Far East and the United King-

th dom and, in normal times, The office t 1911

Cont nent, and also between Par the Atlantic Enstern ports and Coast of North America and act Canado. The Company also as agents at Hong Kong for the Klav ness Trans-Pacific cargo and and for the passenger service, cargo service of the Isthmian Lin from Atlantic Coast ports to the Oment.

Hong Kong was oped in under the name of The Bank L ne 1d, but in 1934 the office was in

compuny Joral a corporated as under the name of The Bank Lane (China) Lid.

On behalf of Andrew Weir & controls the Cu.. the Company Bank L ne regular cargo serv(C", maintained with last diesel ves- sels, between the Orient and the Atlantic Coast of North America. and on behalf of the same inter- ests they also operate a regular freight and passenger service be- tween Far Eastern ports and South Africa via Mauritius, Reunion and Madagascar,

In addition to acting in a super- visory capacity for The Bank Lin Ltd. feet, The Bank Line (China) Ltd. are controlling agents in the

Whilst shipping in all its forms is the principal business of The Bank Line (China) Ltd., they a'so have large insurance and coal interes's. Besides dealing in In- dian coals, the Company has for the principal many years been importers of Natal and Transvaal coals, the quantities of the latter imported into Hong Kong in the last few years having reached very considerable proportions.

W. S.

19411

BAILEY & CO LTD

ESTABLISHED 1900

KOWLOON BAY

HONG KONG

SHIPBUILDERS, ENGINEERS, REPAIRERS.

TWO ELECTRIC SLIPWAYS, FORGINGS, BRASS AND IRON CASTINGS, ELECTRIC AND OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING, STEEL CONSTRUCTIONAL WORK OF ALL KINDS.

TEL. ADDRESS: “SEYBOURNE”

TEL. No. 58024

SOLE AGENTS FOR KELVIN MOTORS.