Mikasa (car brand)

Mikasa
owner	Okamura Seisakusho
Introductory year	1957
Products	Automobiles
Website	www.okamura.jp

Mikasa ( Japanese ミ カ サ ) was a car brand from Japan .

Brand history

The company Okamura Seisakusho from Yokohama began in 1957 with the production of automobiles called Mikasa . Production ended in 1961.

vehicles

Mikasa

Side view

Four-wheeled small cars were on offer. The front-wheel drive and the automatic transmission were special . An air-cooled two-cylinder - four stroke - boxer engine with 585 cc powered vehicles. In the two-door station wagon Mk I or Service Car , the engine developed between 18 and 21 hp and in the two-seater Roadster Touring or Touring Car between 21 and 23 hp.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Mikasa.
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1036. (English)

Web links

Commons : Mikasa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Okamura Corporation (accessed April 2, 2016)
• d'Auto (Dutch, accessed April 2, 2016)
• Allcarindex (accessed April 2, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Mikasa.
2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1036. (English)