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KOTron (K.O.Tron) クーオートロン, Shinagawa Denki; Tokyo

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Name: KOTron (K.O.Tron) クーオートロン, Shinagawa Denki; Tokyo    (J)  
Abbreviation: kotron
Products: Tube manufacturer
Summary:

Horikawa Industrial Co. (1931)

KO Vacuum Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Shinagawa Denki K.K.
Office and Plant: 1-429 Gotanda, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo

Tube brand: Kotron / K.O. Tron クーオートロン

Small manufacturer listed on page 2 of Hisashi Ohtsuka's "Dawn of Tube Production in Japan", section 007L, with a founding date of 1941.

The company has existed previously however: there is an article "On the New Tubes", by Hisao Maeda of Shinagawa Denki, published in 1936 in the Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.

Founded: 1931
History:

Founded as Horikawa Industrial Co in 1931. Company renamed to KO Vacuum Tube Mfg. Co., later to Shinagawa Electric Co. Ltd.

In 1942, the tube brand Tou トウ was introduced.

This manufacturer was suggested by Fin Stewart.


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