Umemoto

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Umemoto Seisakusho (梅本製作所, i.e. Umemoto Works) is a Japanese company, founded in 1935 by Umemoto Kinzaburō (梅本金三郎), after he was asked in 1932 by the distributor Kikōdō to set up a camera plant.[1] (Umemoto Kinzaburō had already opened a small plant in Yokokawa in 1931, where he was acting as a subcontractor for his former employer.)[2] The factory was completed in 1935 and was situated in Tokyo, Kameido.[3]

Before the war, the company made the Super Makinet Six and Neure Six 6

  1. Umemoto company history.
  2. According to the Umemoto company history, the address was Tōkyō-shi Honjo-ku Yokokawa (東京市本所区横川).
  3. According to the Umemoto company history, the address was Tōkyō-shi Jōtō-ku Kameido-machi 3-chōme 84-banchi (東京市城東区亀戸町三丁目八四番地) before the war.