1942 Minister of War Commendation Commemorative Ceramic Paperweight/昭和十七年三月三菱重工業株式会社名古屋発動機製作所陸軍大臣表彰記念文鎮

Size 100 mm.
Weight 172 g.

Made in the form of piston engine.

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昭和十七年三月 - March 1942

陸軍大臣表彰記念 - Minister of Commendation War Commemorative

三菱重工業 株式会社 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd

名古屋発動機製作所 - Nagoya Engine Works

Nagoya Engine Works was one of the main aircraft engines manufacturers during WW2. From just after the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in July 1937, the military authorities requested Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to expand its aircraft production capacity, and the request size increased as the tide of the war began to flow against Japan. In response, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries rapidly expanded the capacity of the Nagoya Aircraft Works, with the support of the military authorities and the government. The Nagoya Aircraft Works was supplied engines from the Nagoya Engine Works inside Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, but it relied on many outside suppliers for other airframe parts. The USSBS reports indicate that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries contracted out 32% of its work on aircraft production to subcontractors. Nagoya Aircraft Works undertook to find and manage its subcontractors when the expansion of production capacity began. Before the Pacific War, the Nagoya Aircraft Works had already set up a branch office with staff stationed in Osaka and Tokyo to find subcontractors and then supervise their work.​

Marked Aoi Kiln /葵窯/ - pottery manufacturer from Aichi Prefecture.

 

Cased specimen.