Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Commemorative Plate. Steam Locomotive in the Snow 1940.

The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a steam locomotive stranded in the snow, marking the severity of the winter of the beginning of 1940 & the date 1940. In the rim with floral swags and tulips the text:
DAT MEN NIET REISDE PER AUTO OF SPOOR
DAAR ZORGDE DE WINTER VAN ’40 WEL VOOR (That people didn’t travel by car or train there for took care the winter of ‘40)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND - ANNO 1940
Two painters worked on this plate. 
Painter initials: VA = Dirk Jan van Arum Jr.
Employment dates: 1938 - 1947 &
VK  = Antonius Johannes van Kampenhout
Employment dates: 1892 – 1942
Literature:
This item is shown in - Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson Page 134 - Fig.11-29          

Diam.:  18,2 cm.  (7,2 inches.)
Weight: 221 grams.