Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Commemorative Plate. Steam Train in the Snow Winter - 1940

The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a steam locomotive stranded in the snow, marking the severty of the winter of the beginning of 1940  & the date 1940. In the rim 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 with:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL  DELFT 

DELFT - HOLLAND  -  BJ  =  1940

Two painters worked on this plate:

Painter: VA = D.J. van Arum
Employment dates: 1938 - 1947  

Painter JH = J.H. ten Hacken.
Employment dates 1940 - 1988

Literature: 

This item is shown in - Royal Delft  a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson Page 134   - Fig.11 - 29