Shortly after the opening of the University of Hong Kong in 1912, Sir Robert Ho-Tung made a donation of $100,000 to the university for the purpose of providing an engineering machine shop for training of engineering students. The first small workshop, which was built on 1914, was located very close to the main campus building.<Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1926
Drawings showing the Elevation of the University of Hong Kong's 'Ho-Tung Engineering Workshop' building on Pokfulam Road. Completed in 1925. Demolished in 1980s <Read more ...>
A view inside the ground-floor machine shop of the Ho-Tung Engineering Workshop Building completed in 1925 for the University of Hong Kong's engineering students. Students can be seen gaining "hands-on " training on overhead belt-driven lathes. <Read more ...>
