KL photographer Jeffrey Lim documents trishaw-making process from ‘beca’ master Benny Diong to preserve its heritage (VIDEO) | Malay Mail

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KL photographer Jeffrey Lim documents trishaw-making process from ‘beca’ master Benny Diong to preserve its heritage (VIDEO)

for trishaw peddlers back in the 1970s so that they could use them when they headed back to their hometown in China.

“Once these trishaw men reached China, they would assemble them using the numbered iron pieces and individual parts.to be put as a display in KL's Federal Hotel so that tourists could admire and sit on it.” “My dad had bought important tools from England and Germany and these machine tools helped us make our“At the age of 18, I worked in Sin Hing to continue the family business and observed how my dad would bend galvanised iron pipes into L-shapes to make the frames of the vehicle among other things.

One day when Diong was discarding his old machine tools, photographer Jeffrey Lim who stumbled upon his shop told theLim also asked Diong to teach him how to make aFor Lim, who is also a cultural worker and a documentarian, he saw the value in salvaging these remaining handcrafted tools to archive theIt was about a few years ago when Lim started documenting old heritage bicycle shops for his cycling and mapping projects.

 

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