Engineering Company has been in existence since 1906 the history of the company itself dates back 78 years to 1862, when the firm of Boyd & Ca. was founded. Another firm, S. C. Farnham & Ca., founded in 1665, absorbed a new company known as the Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding and Dock Company, Ltd, and in 1900 amalgamated with the original firm of Boyd & Ca. to become known as S. C. Farnham, Boyd & Ca, Ltd, with a capital of Tls. 5,570,000. The name by which ihe company has been known for the last 33 years was adopted in May, 1906, and at that time the extensive Properties owned by the company included the Pootung Engine Works and Shipyard, the New Dock, the Old Dock, the Cosmpolitan Dock, the International Dock and Tungkadoo Docks.
British enterprise and industrial from the old time stern wheeler to the modern screw type steamers, are to be seen in profusion in the halls of the company's offices while scores of photographs of vessels constructed by the company hang on the walls. As a reminder that the work of the company has not gone unrecognized a framed certificate gives notice to all and sundry that the firm won the Gold Medal award in the Universal Exposition in the Phillipines in 1904.
Pictures of vessels which have entered the drydock of the company for repair, some of them mere broken hulks, and pictures of these same vessels after repairs have been completed, remind one of those "before and after" advertisements which ba: bers, dentists and shoemakey$ indus; in. One such picture portrays the steamer, Kinling which was coddled into drydock after being almost demolished by fire. The picture taker M Y Zien 100 Winnie Liang 20 Space does not permit the enumera-H E Middleton 100 Michel Harriz 20 tion of all the accomplishments of St Stephen's Eh 100 Michel Harriz 15 n 100 L S Feingold 15 "Farmer" ioo L F Bright 15 the company since it was first formed in 1862, but the work performed has Chiang Chi. 80 Arthur Sopher 15 ranged in scope from manufacturing "Joint Charity" 67 Theodore Soping 15 D G Foits T Chang Hsiang 12 metal dog licenses for the Shanghai E G Zacharias 6 Wang Hsiao Chi 10 Municipal Council to the erection of Ku Luang P Halls, 10 Holy Trinity Cathedral The num-H Collar Mrs M J Harris 10 ber of ships built by the company Mark L Moody 50 Vu Ching Teh 10 runs into the hundreds while there P T Carey Hugo Gunther 10 A Baer & Ca P B Shroff 10 has been an endless procession of Loh Tung Zui ships passing through the firm's dry-W Russell docks for repairs.
Hwa Cheng Hsu Win H Putnam The Two Bells E Kadoorie & S R E O'Bolger L H Lawfoid Probably the most familiar E G Tewksbury anecdote concerning the Pootung Shipyard to survive the passing of time is the story of the two bells. J S King Mounted in the yard was a large 276- In M of Lacey pound bell while directly underneath it was fixed a small, ordinary shio's bell The resonant booming of the large bell was used to summon the C B Morrison L—- workers to their labour on week C Treppenhauer 29 $12,739.81 Jays but the small one was used on Sundays so that the worshippers in Anonymous 2 "LIVS" US$10 M K Monteiro—10 2 nearby church would not be disturbed in their prayers. The management, devout Scots, had no objection to the work being done on Sun-St. Tichon's Orphanage days but it was not allowed to in-Appeal Fund terfere with the kirk.
Visitors to the foundry in those Bron NE R, Warren Roberts 80 Rev M H
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