Steering box casting TOYODA
Feb 28, 2011 | 03:52 AM
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Yes, and on the power steering resevoir lid. Toyoda was the original name of the company. When changed to Toyota, the Japanese characters were somehow more appealing, or took less strokes, or a lucky number of strokes, or something superstitious like that...
Feb 28, 2011 | 07:22 AM
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I believe the company founders family name is Toyoda.
Yes, here's some more on that:
Yes, here's some more on that:
Eiji Toyoda studied engineering at Tokyo Imperial University from 1933 to 1936.[1] During this time Toyoda's cousin Kiichiro established an automobile plant at the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works in the city of Nagoya in central Japan.[1] Toyoda joined his cousin in the plant at the conclusion of his degree and throughout their lives they shared a deep friendship. In 1938, Kiichiro Toyoda asked Eiji Toyoda to oversee construction of a newer factory about 32 km east of Nagoya on the site of a red pine forest in the town of Koromo, later re-named Toyota City.[2] Known as the Honsha ("headquarters") plant, to this day it is considered the "mother factory" for Toyota Motor production facilities worldwide.[2]
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