Ōhashi

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Ōhashi Kōki Seisakusho (大橋光機製作所) was a Japanese company based in Tokyo.[1] It made the Hope 6.5×9 plate camera around 1935[2], the Baby Light 3×4 camera in 1936 and 1937 and the Roll Light Ref 4.5×6 TLR in 1937.

The cameras were distributed by the associated company Ōhashi Takeji Shōten (大橋武治商店).[3]

Notes

  1. Its address was Tōkyō-shi Edogawa-ku Koiwa-machi 3, 1625-banchi (東京市江戸川区小岩町三ノ一六二五番地). Source: undated Ōhashi leaflets. The company also used a postal box in 1937: Tōkyō Honjo-kyoku Shishobako 15-gō (東京本所局私書函十五號). Source: advertisement published in the April 1937 issue of Asahi Camera, reproduced in Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 100.
  2. Date: Kokusan kamera no rekishi, p. 341.
  3. Its address was Tōkyō-shi Honjo-ku Ryōgoku 4, 12 (東京本所区両国四ノ十二). Source: undated Ōhashi leaflet.

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