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An Advertisement For Kwan Loong And Company Medicated Oil And Embrocation
Scanned from an Old Michaelian magazine this advertisement features the Kwan Loong Company, sole manufacturer of Regal Medicated Oil and Embrocation.
This product is said to be for the treatment of:
Sprains, Cuts, Aches, Colds, Bites, Exhaustions, Coughs, Malaria, Fainting Fits, Poisonous Stings, Burns Boils, Influenza, etc. etc.
The company slogans included:
"It's a Reliable First Aid!" and
"It's a Life-Saver!"
The Kwan Loong Medicated Oil Distribution Company Limited was incorporated in Ipoh on 21st January 1933 under Section 19 of "The Companies Enactment, 1917". There were 7 shareholders:
Tong Yit Hoe, Merchant, Kuala Lumpur
Chan Lan Fong, Merchant, Kuala Lumpur
Chong Fong, Merchant, 25 Treacher Street, Ipoh
Cheah Kah Shee, Merchant, Kuala Lumpur
Lai Hock Chor, Merchant, 25 Cecil Street, Ipoh
Looi Khee Cheong, Merchant, Kuala Lumpur
Wong Siew Nam, Clerk, Kuala Lumpur.
The latter had one share only while his partners had 500 each.