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27 black and white prints of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery sent with a letter from Hong Kong dated 22 June 1956. The photographs are captioned as follows:
1. Retail packs
2. Cube making plant. Trays of cubes visibile on conveyer belt beyond drum
3. Mobile hopper feeding re-vivified char to char cisterns
4. Lyemun Tower - 3 flats for Refinery Supervisors with air conditioned bedrooms
5. Service tanks for mixing Celite filter aid with sugar solution prior to filtration
6. Woodside
7. Cube-making plant. Raw of cubes [sic] shown dropping from revolving drum
8. The organ. Supplying 20 foot high char cisterns with air, water, syrup and liquor as required. Each supply pipe clearly marked
9. Automatic Bulk filling and weighing
10. Retail packing - sewing 5 lb bags
11. Bulk packs
12. Masseciute (the boiled mass ie. 50% crystal, 50% syrup) dropped from vacuum pan and about to be separated in centrifuguals
13. Oil fired char kiln (one of four) on left. Char cisterns (16 in all) on right
14. Wet, used char being conveyed to char kilns for re-vivifying
15. 750kw BTH Electric Generator - TSR Co. (J Young, Assistant Engineer)
16. White sugar vacuum pan
17. Revovling cylindrical sugar driers
18. Syrup tanks and pumps
19. White sugar centrifugals
20. White sugar vacuum pan
21. Boiler House - 3 Bacock and Wilcox boilers, each 15,000 lbs oil fired
22. China Navigation Co. vessel 'Hanyang' loading refined sugar at Refinery Wharf
23. No. 5 'Braemar' Reservoir 12 feet from overflow
24. Main Entrance
25. Blue Funnel vessel 'Ajax' unloading Phillipine raw sugar at Refinery Wharf
26. Main Refinery Building & fuel oil tank taken fro wharf. Office building extreme right. 'Woodside' home extreme left on hillside
27. Main Entrance
The file includes a leaflet explaining the meaning behind the Yin and Yang symbol, adopted as the trademark of the Taikoo Sugar Refinery.
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