MECHANICAL ENGINEERING HERITAGE NO.72
Automatic Transmission of ‘MIKASA’
This device is an automatic transmission that was on board the ‘MIKASA’ released in 1957 as a four-wheel automobile and it featured an original torque converter produced for the first time in Japan. The device comprises the torque converter and the transmission that Okamura Corporation succeeded in developing in 1951, and it constitutes a power unit, as it is integrated with a 2-cylinder horizontally opposed engine. At present, the automatic transmission is preserved and exhibited at Okamura Chair Museum.
On exhibition (Reservation required)
Okamura Chair Museum
- Hours open:
- 9:00–17:00 (* Reservation required by morning of preceding day.)
- Admission fee:
- Free
- Days closed:
- Saturdays, Sundays, holidays
- Address:
- 2-13-2 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0014
- Tel:
- +81-3-3593-6195
- URL:
- http://www.okamura.co.jp/company/museum/
- Access:
- 5 mins. on foot from Akasaka-mitsuke Sta., Tokyo Metro Ginza/Marunouchi Line