Tetsudō Sharyō

Tetsudō Sharyō, officially the Atsuta Railway Vehicle Manufacturing Plant, was a short-lived minor locomotive builder in Japan based in Atsuta, Nagoya.
The company's history can be traced back to 1896 when it was founded by Masaharu Noda and a group of ex-Japanese Government Railways employees; experts from the government advised the company to not try to directly compete with Nippon Sharyo which was founded around the same time. The company was funded by Aichi Bank (now Mitsubishi UFJ Bank).
The company was known to have manufactured rolling stock for the Nanao Railway, Kyushu Railway, Kansai Railway and Tokushima Railway. The company also dabbled in building steam locomotives and received an order from the Tokushima Railway to build three steam locomotives for them, to be designated the Hei 1 class.
With the recession in 1900, orders dropped sharply and issues within the company, such as infighting, arose. Opposition parties also filed suits regarding the appointment of directors in the company and a management crisis ensued; Aichi Bank, the main funders of the company, was also in a situation where its management denied any form of responsibility for this. That same year, the company delivered the first of three locomotives to the Tokushima Railway.
In 1902, the company, with all of its managerial and financial issues, declared bankruptcy and was forced to close, with its assets mortgaged off. This meant that the other two locomotives for the Tokushima Railway were never actually completed; both unfinished locomotives were also seized as property by the mortgagers. The unfinished locomotives were then handed as property over to Kisha Seizō, who finished both locomotives and sold them to the Nishinari Railway. The factory was later taken over by the Imperial Japanese Army to create the Tokyo Artillery Arsenal's Atsuta Factory. In total the company manufactured 82 passenger cars, 497 freight cars and 1 steam locomotive.
==Products==
*Heavy rail rolling stock
*Passenger cars
*Freight cars
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