- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated
- ipdb_id
- 6462
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6462/image-8.jpg"]
- ipdb.model_number
- 3-A-5-E
- ipdb.notable_features
- This item was manufactured during World War II. The identification plate riveted to the item indicates:
Special Devices Division USN Bureau of Aeronautics
Device Number 3-A-5-E
Serial Number (blank)
FREE GUNNERY TRAINING SIGHT
Contract No. NOa(s)-2214
Mfrd. by J.H. Keeney & Co., Inc.
Chicago, Illinois
- ipdb.notes
- On March 16, 1942, the War Production Board ordered the shutdown of all manufacture of pinball games, jukeboxes, weighing machines, and other amusement machines, effective May 1, 1942, to concentrate materials for the war effort. Approximately thirty companies, mostly in the Chicago area, and employing about 10,000 people, were affected by this order. Eleven of the thirty companies were already producing parts for bomb sights, artillery shells, parts for airplane gun turrets, and other war items.