The description on the message side of this oversized, promotional postcard, acquired in 1970, reads: Hong Kong – one of the 16 major cities of the Orient serviced by Cathay Pacific: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Calcutta, Djakarta, Fukuoka, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka/Kyoto, Phnom Penh, Saigon, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Vientiane.
Courtesy Cathay Pacific. Member of the Swire Group.
For insights into the early company history of the Swire Group, see Taikoo, Constable, London 1970. An account authored by senior British Far East intelligence operative and highly respected multiple biographer, Commander Charles Drage, who, incidentally, also co-authored 1954 - Drage, Charles, "Two-Gun Cohen", Jonathan Cape, London, March 1954 | Gwulo