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Central Motor Co., Ltd.
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legal form | Limited |
founding | September 1950 |
resolution | July 2012 |
Seat | Ōhira |
Number of employees | 1600 (as of 2011) |
Branch | Automobile manufacturing |
Central Motor Co., Ltd. was a Toyota- owned manufacturing company based in Ōhira . In July 2012, it merged with Kanto Auto Works , Ltd. and Toyota Motor Tohoku Corporation to Toyota Motor East Japan .
history
The company was founded in September 1950 after the Kamata plant had been closed, which had been rented by Nihon Nainenki Seizō .
In May 1960, operations were relocated to the Sagamihara plant. The Wakayanagi plant was built in May 1995.
By August 1983 there were a total of 1 million vehicles. The next million marks were reached in September 1995 and April 2007. In December 1991 the annual production reached 100,000 copies.
In July 2008, Central Motor became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. Vehicle production began in January 2011 at the Miyagi plant (now the Miyagi Ohira plant). Production at the Sagamihara plant ended in July 2011.
model | Production period | number of pieces |
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Toyoace | June 1956 - May 1960 | 2535 |
Dyna | April 1957 - June 1967 | 7560 |
Master pickup | April 1957 - December 1970 | 43,241 |
FS (ambulance) | October 1961 - March 1971 | 1028 |
Publica Convertible | October 1963 - December 1968 | 7560 |
Corona pickup | October 1964 - August 1968 | 25,144 |
Corona Mark II | April 1968 - July 1974 | 43,920 |
RH (ambulance) | April 1971 - December 2000 | 3203 |
Crown Van and Wagon | May 1973 - July 1983 | 82,300 |
Carina Van | December 1975 - April 1987 | 292,888 |
MR2 | June 1984 - August 1999 | 300.108 |
Sera | February 1990 - December 1995 | 15,941 |
room | May 1997 - March 2011 | 332,675 |
MR-S | October 1999 - July 2007 | 78.041 |
WiLL Vi | January 2000 - December 2001 | 16,649 |
WiLL VS | April 2001 - April 2004 | 14,985 |
Corolla Runx and Allex | July 2001 - January 2007 | 176.033 |
WiLL Cypha | September 2002 - July 2005 | 31,856 |
bB | August 2004 - December 2005 | 39.173 |
xB | August 2004 - December 2006 | 117,854 |
Corolla Axio | from October 2006 |
source
- Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc.- History. In: toyota-ej.co.jp. September 14, 1946; Retrieved February 18, 2019 (Japanese).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 75 Years of TOYOTA - Part 1, Chapter 2, Section 6 - Item 6. Closure of Shibaura and Kamata Plants. In: toyota-global.com. August 1, 2016, accessed March 3, 2019 .