From cotton to the automotive empire - the history

In 1930, Sakichi Toyoda, 63-year-old's death. He left the children is a nearly 10,000 employees of a thriving cotton. End of the 19th century, invented by Sakichi use of its new weaving machines to create the companies, at the same time to create a continuous supply of inventory to avoid working methods, to improve productivity by 50%, greatly reduced the textile the cost of this method Now known as the "work of the law in a timely manner." Toyoda time from the old car to the cotton fields cars saw the future a large number of products have been exported to all over the world, so ancient and file and their eldest son was born in 1894 Kiichiro the world outside of Japan interest in full. Kiichiro Europe and the United States had carried out a study, Europe and the United States so that the dynamic of the industrial revolution, he has been badly shaken, and his car is more emotional. He finds that the next vehicle must be a vital means of transport. At that time, Japan was a less well-off countries, only 3 small-scale automobile manufacturing, production is only a mere few hundred vehicles, and Ford of the United States off the assembly line every day l 10,000 T-car. Sakichi father and son decided to set foot in the field of automobile manufacturers, such as economic conditions have improved production. Sakichi premature death, not the first time to see the birth of a Toyota. Hi son - Lang years in 1933 only l3 million investment in the establishment of the Department of motor vehicles. AA car-like design in May 1933 after an article named AA come out of the car. 1 year later, A1 start small batch production. This is a large sedan, the case was streamlined, very beautiful, then mimic Chrysler Airflow models, equipped with 6-cylinder 3.4 liters engine output of 62 horsepower (46 kilowatts). However, Japan was a very small cars in the market with special needs is a mini-vans, mini-vans so Toyoda invested in the development of the largest efforts. In 1937, Toyoda Motor Company produced a total of 4013, AA-type sedan and convertible only AB-577. It was also during this period, the company decided to change the name of Toyota (Toyota). Reported, a female diviner is a proposal of such a change because of Toyota's Japanese writing symbols and more beautiful shape, and there are 8 characters, 8 in Japan is a lucky number. When the legend better than the reality, people believe that the legend of the total. In 1940, Toyota produced about l5000 vehicles, including mini-vans is 98 percent. It was introduced a relatively new type of compact sedan, equipped with 4-cylinder 2.2 liters engine of 48 horsepower, in the form closer to Sweden's Volvo PV60. To make recommendations for a female shaman TIAN cars started out by imitating, although Toyota vehicles is not much experience. But strictly adhere to the credo: to imitate than to create simpler, if in imitation of the grant to improve at the same time, so much the better. Kiichiro their father's philosophy in the same strain, he must first know that the production of safe, solid, economic, traditional cars, rather than innovative products. So in a long time, all Toyota vehicles have such characteristics. In l945, Japan's defeat. Devastated the Japanese archipelago as a whole, the economy suffered a devastating blow to the destruction of roads, scarce raw materials. But Toyota quickly from the ruins of war, take heart. Due to poor road conditions after the war,
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