Japanese aircraft instruments

[Micdrow]

Thanks ob'98 for the follow up. Im sure every one learned something on this set of posts. I know I did.

[ColesAircraft]

All of the instruments I've seen in your pictures thus far are Japanese WW2-era pieces. Each one originally had a data plate, and each plate would usually be stamped with one of three characters denoting its use by service branch:

Anchor - Japanese Navy (usually accompanied by an 'y' symbol, which was added by the Navy Inspector)

Star in circle - Army

Kanji character in a square or circle - Civilian use.

I'm always adding Japanese aircraft cockpit information on my own website at: index

I make a point of not bothering with common or published stuff - so you might identify some new instrument applications there (and my art )

- Ron Cole

[samd]

Hello, looks like I found the right place. I recently inherited some parts off of a Zero that my Grandpa stripped off (I think in Saipan). I found info from the website posted earlier and found the gauge to be a Manifold temp gauge. My question's are, What does the large data plate say? What are the 2 components in the boxes? What I think happened is the parts and the aluminum skin were removed after the plane was shot down. Unfortunately I am unable to hear the whole story.

[Micdrow]

The gauge looks like a cylinder head temperature gauge and the bottom left large plate looks like a fuselage identification stencil. If it is the large numbers would be the serial number for the aircraft it was taken off of.

[Micdrow]

Link here for picture of gauge.

Production Indicator in terms of a/the production company

[Micdrow]

This link will probably help for the identification of the large plate at least on how to read it.

Zero Fuselage Identification Stencil

[ppopsie]

ID plate on the left

a small and straight one: upside down left letter "chi" "ji" ; ground
a half round one: unrecognizable at 200% resolution
a couple of small and straight one: high frequency amp "koshuha
zoufuku"

a large one, from top left; description, production serial #, inspection date, inspection stamp
from top right: fuel filter (secondary), S1385 go, Showa year tuki hi , IJN Inspection stamp and on the bottom,
Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Kinzoku Seisakusho (Japan metal works co.??)
Hyogo pref ????

Boxes on the right
a black one on top: production number and date
a cardboard box:
Clystal
#5788 S go
Showa 19 nen (1944) 3 gatsu (March)
stamp in a red box: ju (accepted or passed?)
Toyo Tushinki Kabushiki Kaisha (today's Totu)

These are from what I can see on the photo. The instrument on the second photo is a CHT highly probably in Celucius. Micdrow san that was correct. It can read "shirinda ondo kei" where shirinda in Katakana is a cylinder in Japanese phonetics.



Regards,

[Micdrow]

Awsome Job there ppopsie!!!!!!

[ppopsie]

Oh its not an awesome one but just a small one. I may ask somebody's help in case if I got to read other country's documents.

An apology for my absence since early this morning.

[samd]

Thank You! I did not expect to get such good info so quickly. Does anybody know if there is more information about this particular aircraft, given the serial number?

[samd]

Hello, I came across some more documents, could anyone help with these?

[ppopsie]

These are appearently non-military related papers.
The upper and middle ones are for Post Office Fixed Term Deposit certification and it is possible these are post ww2 ones.

The third is a written instruction regarding shipping of goods from a company probably in Saipan. The nature of the goods were not stated.

[ppopsie]

On the last lines on the third document are the names of two vessels; Yokohama Maru and Amagi Maru. Both were NYK ships.

Yokohama Maru was sunk off Salamaua in New Guinea on March 10th 1942 and from this the document presumed to be issued sometime before the height of the war.