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easternwarfront
Of course this 59628 lot was ordered from AJAX ( in 1935) but according to an agreement between the owner of AJAX and the Magyar Waggon és Gépgyár the GY plant delivered this quantity. The total number of produced hungarian helmets is unknown (probably less than a million) but we know that helmet production started in 1935 and went on until late 1944. GY maker's plant was bombed down completely by US bombers in april of 1944 and never produced helmets anymore. We know the max capacity of both helmet makers and we know that Hungary shipped 75.000 helmets to Finnland in 1940. (37.500 from each maker).
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