Article about: Ever since I got to shoot one of these little jewels at our AZ shoot around 15 years ago I've always been interested to learn more about them Bing video There isn't much written information
Ever since I got to shoot one of these little jewels at our AZ shoot around 15 years ago I've always been interested to learn more about them YouTube
There isn't much written information about them at all and I'd like to write up an article for Banzai if I can get enough input. So, if you have any information about them as far as production numbers, variations, etc, I'd sure like to hear from you. Since some of these are "undocumented" I'll be sure to keep all info provided confidential. What I've gathered so far is that production seems to have started with the Nambu factory and then was continued by Nagoya Arsenal. Serial numbers would be nice to give an idea of total produced by each.
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I have checked this site and question their statement that 27K were produced. Both of the book references they footnote are questionable. So far what I've found in confirmable information is that there were only around 9K of these made.
Thanks for the input!
You read the wrong version. The Japanese version has production numbers at approx 10,000. You need to realize that the various language versions on Wikipedia are not translations of each other and have different authors. You were expected to open the Japanese site given, and then right click to translate that page into English.
Ok. I'm just trying to get to the bottom line on how many were produced by Nambu and by Nagoya. One source mentions 10K made by Kokura which I can find no evidence of at all?
Thanks for the lesson on how to use Wikipedia language translations!
Last edited by arisakadogs; 11-24-2018 at 03:29 PM.
I did a quick archive survey of my own and the result is as follows
1941 June--1942 March : 500 units
1942 April--1943 March : 500
1943 April--1944 March : 300 1944 April--1945 March : 15,000
Total 16,300 units
There was a big surge in production volume in 1944, because of Nagoya Arsenal joining Chuou Kougyo as a production source. Nagoya produced 45% of the total production from that point onwards, as shown below.
Nagoya was planning to build between April 1945 and March 1946 another 10,300 units of which 300 was for the Navy.
At least between April and November 1944 no Type 100 SMGs were produced by Kokura nor was production planned for 1945.
My colleague Shigeo Sugawa, specialist on WW2 firearms, also assumed total production to be 8000 to 9000, based on existing serial numbers and the rate of production of approx 1000/month from April 1944. Archive results are, however, somewhat higher, but the fact that many of these SMGs sunk to the bottom of the Pacific while still on transit to the troops easily explains the discrepancy of 6000 or so.
Last edited by Nick Komiya; 11-24-2018 at 02:29 PM.
Nick, this is great information & I thank you for it. With the above information it looks like Chuo Kogyo and Nagoya each had their own serial number range which brings the number produced up. Does anyone have some good detailed photos of a Chuo Kogyo produced example?
Edit;
I received some research data that has some actual reported examples of the Chuo Kogyo SMGs and the numbers reported show S/N 212 for Showa 19.2 and 392 for Showa 19.6. So, maybe actual production was much less than reported? This is going to be tough with so few examples around and the many that I'm sure are at the bottom of the ocean as mentioned above.
This new information also states that around 20 SMGs were made at the Hoten Arsenal but doesn't say what type they were and that they were confiscated by the Russians.
Last edited by arisakadogs; 11-28-2018 at 03:30 PM.
Reason: New Info
Research Info Wanted for T-100 SMG
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