COMPAGNIE DES EAUX DE HANOI: LY TUHONG KIET FACTORY
Indochina, 1930 and later documents
Rare set of documents relating to the Hanoi Water Company and, more specifically, to its Ly Tuhong Kiet factory in Hanoi. It includes, in particular:
1. a large-scale model of the factory, made of wood and partially polychromed;
2. a set of photographic business cards, most of them showing the owner of the Company, Joseph-Marie-Bernard Bédat de Monlaur, some annotated by hand;
3. a set of handwritten letters addressed to the latter as well as two envelopes, one of which circulated;
4. a set of black and white photographs of Indochina, some on albumen paper;
5. typescript documents, printed and reprints, all related to the factory.
Dimensions (the model): H: 21.5 cm - L: 158 cm - W: 57 cm
Note: It was in 1909 that Joseph-Marie-Bernard Bédat de Monlaur, an engineer then known for his irrigation companies on the Red River using lifting machines, obtained the water concession for Hanoi. It was then that he had wells drilled and a factory built and expanded several times. It was only much later, in 1930, in view of the growth of the city's population, which by then had reached nearly 100,000, that the Hanoi Municipal Water Commission decided to build a second plant, in association with its current concessionaire. It was then that the Hanoi Water Company was set up, headed by four directors, including Mr Bédat de Monlaur, who raised funds and built the new factory at Ly Tuhong Kiet, the model of which we present here.

COMPAGNIE DES EAUX DE HANOI : THE LY TUHONG KIET'S WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Indochina, 1930s and later documents


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