This is a photo of the Dairy Farm Aircraft Catering Building at Kai Tak in 1968 when the new two-story building was just added next to the original Dairy Farm building. This photo is from the 1968 Dairy Farm Annual Report. I have not been able to identify the exact location of this building on the map. Help from the Gwulo readers is kindly solicited. After about 55 years, this building must have been demolished a long time ago.
Date picture taken
1968
Comments
1970s Kai Tak Airport
A photo below showing the buildings of Hong Kong Air Terminal Services Ltd and Dairy Farm Catering Services. From the photo, one may be able to deduce the location of the buildings in the main photo above.
Dairy Farm Aircraft Caterers appear in maps at https://www.hkmaps.hk/viewer.html from 1965 onwards. I may be wrong but there appears to be an extension of their premises towards the east rather than to the west making the taller building with Dairy Farm logo the newer building with added floors ?
Dairy Farm Aircraft Catering Services Building at Kai Tak Airpor
Thank you for the photo provided. With that, I am able to have a better coordination of where the Dairy Farm Aircraft Catering Services building was located based on its relative position to other prominent surrounding buildings. From that, I was able to identify 2 photos from the internet that clearly show the location of the Dairy Farm Aircraft Catering Services building at the Kai Tai airport.
This black and white photo was taken in 1970. The Color photo below was taken probably in the early or mid-sixties when the passenger terminal was still under construction.
Legends:
A: Dairy Farm Aircraft Catering Services Building
B: Tai Kai Airport Terminal
C: Prince Edward Road east
D: Choi Hung Road
Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoting2000/15190105569/sizes/l/
Dairy Farm Aircraft Catering Services Building at Kai Tak
Legends:
A: Dairy Farm Aircraft Catering Services Building
B: Tai Kai Airport Terminal (Under Construction)
Photo source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525654587762450747/
Well Done!
Good investigative work. That helps me date the Hang Khong Viet Nam Boeing 727 photo to 1968/69 as the aircraft was manufactured in 1968 and delivered to the airline in the same year.
Your colour photo shows an angular parking arrangement being the norm for aircraft parked closer to the main terminal. However, your B/W photo from 1970 shows a different aircraft parking arrangement brought about by the operation of larger aircraft like the Boeing 747 into Hong Kong.