RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1976 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/hq382988q A ROAD TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN WEST CHINA 1942-46 Checked by Michael Fox and Tony Reynolds Copies to COG Chungking GM Kutsing M Fox T Reynolds Truck No. 21. List of Tools Spares and Equipment: 23:3:45 Page Two 1 Chev water pump 1 chev rear spring main leaf 1 front spring assembly. 10 leaf. 3 spring clamps 4 front spring U bolts 2 rear spring U bolts 5 rear spring center bolts (enlarged for Dodge) 2 rear wheel bearing locking rings 1 roll asbestos assorted copper pipe 1 syphon hose 1 tuyere 1 offtake grid 1 half shaft (short) 159 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1976 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/hq382988q A ROAD TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN WEST CHINA 1942-46 1 hydraulic jack 1 small funnel 1 syphon hose 2 flexible spouts 1 bleeding tube 1 blow lamp 1 inspection light 4 wooden jack blocks 2 fire grates 3 charcoal sacks 1 transmission pump line 2 wheel wrenches and bars 2 grease guns 3 tire irons 1 oil can Tools (extra to Reynolds, personal kit) 1 hacksaw frame 1 heavy hammer 2 screwdrivers 1 cold chisel 1 offset punch 1 bearing scraper 1 tire valve tool 1 soldering iron, solder and acid Fuel and lubricants Petrol from CK. 150 galls, Kansu petrol plus full tanks buy in Kwangyuan collect from FAU dump at Shuangshipu 9 drums collect from FAU dump at Shuangshipu return trip 5 drums ...... Add full tanks at SSP on return trip Theoretical consumption at 8 mpg over 3,200 miles Engine oil 15 gal. SAE 10 Det. gear oil 2 gal. SAE 90 Brake fluid alcohol petrol (red) battery acid + gal. 10 gal. (for radiators) 5 gal. 1 bottle Len Bonsall, Garage manager Tony Reynolds, Convoy leader 250 gal. 150 450 H 300 1150 gal. 100 Total 1250 gal. 1200 gal. Corrected to: A ROAD TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN WEST CHINA 1942-46 1 hydraulic jack 1 small funnel 1 syphon hose 2 flexible spouts 1 bleeding tube 1 blow lamp 1 inspection light 4 wooden jack blocks 3 fire grates 3 charcoal sacks 1 transmission pump line 2 wheel wrenches and bars 2 grease guns 3 tire irons 1 oil can Tools (extra to Reynolds, personal kit) 1 hacksaw frame 1 heavy hammer 2 screwdrivers 1 cold chisel 1 offset punch 1 bearing scraper 1 tire valve tool 1 soldering iron, solder and acid Fuel and lubricants Petrol from CK. 150 galls, Kansu petrol plus full tanks buy in Kwangyuan collect from FAU dump at Shuangshipu 9 drums collect from FAU dump at Shuangshipu return trip 5 drums ...... Add full tanks at SSP on return trip Theoretical consumption at 8 mpg over 3,200 miles Engine oil 15 gal. SAE 10 Det. gear oil 2 gal. SAE 90 Brake fluid alcohol petrol (red) battery acid + gal. 10 gal. (for radiators) 5 gal. 1 bottle Len Bonsall, Garage manager Tony Reynolds, Convoy leader 250 gal. 150 450 H 300 1150 gal. 100 Total 1250 gal. 1200 gal. Revised to proper HTML format with and : A ROAD TRANSPORT SYSTEM IN WEST CHINA 1942-46 1 hydraulic jack 1 small funnel 1 syphon hose 2 flexible spouts 1 bleeding tube 1 blow lamp 1 inspection light 4 wooden jack blocks 3 fire grates 3 charcoal sacks 1 transmission pump line 2 wheel wrenches and bars 2 grease guns 3 tire irons 1 oil can Tools (extra to Reynolds, personal kit) 1 hacksaw frame 1 heavy hammer 2 screwdrivers 1 cold chisel 1 offset punch 1 bearing scraper 1 tire valve tool 1 soldering iron, solder and acid Fuel and lubricants Petrol from CK. 150 galls, Kansu petrol plus full tanks buy in Kwangyuan collect from FAU dump at Shuangshipu 9 drums collect from FAU dump at Shuangshipu return trip 5 drums ...... Add full tanks at SSP on return trip Theoretical consumption at 8 mpg over 3,200 miles Engine oil 15 gal. SAE 10 Det. gear oil 2 gal. SAE 90 Brake fluid alcohol petrol (red) battery acid + gal. 10 gal. (for radiators) 5 gal. 1 bottle Len Bonsall, Garage manager Tony Reynolds, Convoy leader 250 gal. 150 450 H 300 1150 gal. 100 Total 1250 gal. 1200 gal. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1977 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/np198x23n 186 NOTES AND QUERIES relating to it. The tour will include a visit to the Tin Hau Temple at Miu Kong, Tsuen Wan, where there is a memorial to the war and a tablet to the Tsuen Wan villagers who were killed. Also to the Kwan Tei Temple at Kam Tin, where part of the Shing Mun villagers were resettled in 1928, which contains a tablet to the Shing Mun villagers killed in the struggle. From the Tsuen Wan ferry pier, the party went first by coach to the Shing Mun reservoir, sometimes called the Jubilee Reservoir because of its completion at the time of King George V's jubilee year (1935). A picnic lunch on one of the vantage points with barbecue and sitting out facilities was followed by a talk by Dr. James Hayes, Tour Leader, on the history and livelihood of the former villagers who lived in the valley for nearly 300 years before their removal in 1928 for the reservoir project. After lunch, the party moved to Kam Tin where the main body of the Shing Mun people moved in 1928. Here our intrepid and helpful bus driver got into difficulties in a confined space between a USD refuse trailer and the gate to the school compound. He was rescued by the action of a group of Members who dismantled a tied up, projecting hawker cart whilst, with characteristic energy and flair, Professor Tony Reynolds directed the driver, conjuring up visions of problems expertly handled many years ago in far Yenan!* After this episode, we were welcomed by the village representative Mr. Cheng Siu-fong (*) and the Headmaster of the Shing Mun New Village School, Mr. Cheung Sze-man (X). We were entertained to tea in the school which has an interesting history. It bears the same name as the old school at Shing Mun Tai Wai built for the villagers by their leaders very many years before their removal in 1928. After the move to Kam Tin it was reprovisioned in the ancestral halls and in 1958, under a subsidized village school building programme supported by the Education Department and New Territories Administration, it transferred to the present six classroomed school building. Over tea our hosts told us something of the village history after the move to Kam Tin. The main difference was in livelihood, because their agricultural holdings by purchase and rent were only a fraction of those held at Shing Mun, inevitably since Kam Tin had been long densely settled by the Tang clan and later inhabitants. * See his article at pp 43-54 of this Journal. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1978 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8g84t8593 PRESIDENT'S REPORT FOR 1977 (Covering the period April 1, 1977-March 20, 1978) It is my pleasure tonight to report to you on the year's activities and progress of our Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. During this eighteenth year since the Society was resuscitated we have continued to organise a regular programme of lectures and occasional tours drawing on both local talent and the expertise of visiting scholars, and I begin with a short resumé of these events, so that newcomers particularly may gain some idea of the range of our interests. In April Mr. Geoffrey Emerson, a local historian of the Japanese Occupation, gave an illustrated talk about the Stanley Internment Camp during the 1942-45 period: a camp where many local residents at the time were forced to live by the Japanese authorities. Several of the persons thus interned attended the talk and some interesting discussion arose. The talk will be published in the 1977 Journal for it is based on original research. Also in April Michael Stevenson spoke on the Chinese Press from his long knowledge as a journalist and particularly his more recent work for the Sing Tao Group of newspapers and as a public relations consultant. In May, Tony Reynolds, Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Hong Kong University, and member of the Friends Ambulance Service in West China between 1941-46, described his fascinating experiences as convoy leader for a load of medical supplies allowed by the Nationalist Government to be taken to the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Region occupied by the 8th Route Army—the first since 1941. This talk which also gives Mr. Reynolds' impressions from meetings with Mao Tze-tung, Chou En-lai and Marshal Chu Te will appear in the 1977 Journal too. The first of two lectures in June was concerned with the History and Music of the Cheng, the Chinese 16-stringed zither, delivered by Professor Liang Tsai-ping who has performed and lectured in both Europe and the U.S.A. as well as Asia; and the second with political and other changes in the Far East in the last ten years, given by Tony Lawrence, for nineteen years Far Eastern Correspondent for the B.B.C. In July Brian Peacock, Curator of the ================================================================================