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On the Reduction of Warship Construction Costs
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- Opinion paper titled "On the Reduction of Warship Construction Costs," issued on February 28, Shōwa 4 (1929-02-28). As an accompanying communication to a letter to Kobayashi Seizō, Naval Constructor Vice Admiral Hiraga identifies the fundamentals of reducing warship construction costs as rapid and appropriate design, the promotion of technical morale, research into manufacturing methods, organizational reform, reduction of incidental expenses, and improvement of methods for purchasing materials. Also mentions experience constructing Hiei and Yamasaka at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, and purchasing administration and year-end purchasing problems at Kure Naval Arsenal. Keywords: warship construction costs, Naval Constructor Vice Admiral Hiraga, Kobayashi Seizō, Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Kure Naval Arsenal, Hiei, Yamasaka, engineers, materials purchasing, year-end purchasingAuto-generated by Azure OpenAI gpt-5.5 from OCR text (which may contain errors) and image captions.
- Item ID
- 6ce7c876-b21e-4c50-9ea1-f5277d1d3b53
- Catalogue ID
- 10340101
- Card catalogue
- "On the Reduction of Warship Construction Costs"
- Doc type
- 意見書
- Category
- 軍艦建造:予算
- Issued
- 1929-02-28
- Extent
- Navy ruled paper, typed/printed | 29 sheets
- Holder
- 東京大学柏図書館
- Year registered
- 2007
- Remarks
- Copy (submitted to Director-General Kobayashi)
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