Mitsui Seiki Kōgyō

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Mitsui Seiki Kōgyō
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding December 29, 1928
Seat Kawajima , Saitama Prefecture , Japan
management Kōichi Iwakura
Number of employees 552
sales 20.3 billion yen (€ 157 million)
Branch Machine tools
Website http://www.mitsuiseiki.co.jp/
As of March 31, 2015

Mitsui Seiki Kōgyō KK ( Japanese 三井 精 機 工業 株式会社 , ~ Kabushiki-gaisha , Eng. Mitsui Precision Machinery & Engineering ) is a manufacturer of machine tools, as well as an early manufacturer of motor vehicles from Japan . The company is part of the Mitsui Group .

history

The company was founded on December 29, 1928 as KK Tsugami Seisakusho ( 株式会社 津 上 製作 所 ) in Ebara-gun County (now Ōta ) in Tokyo Prefecture to manufacture machinery. In December 1937 it was renamed Tōyō Seiki KK ( 東洋 精 機 株式会社 ) and then in May 1942 after the merger with Mitsui Kōsakuki KK ( 三井 工作 機械 株式会社 ) to today's company name. A year later, the headquarters was moved to Chūō , Tokyo . In April 1947, the production of automobiles began with the Orient ( オ リ エ ン ト , Oriento ) . Later the brand name Humbee ( ハ ン ビ ー , Hanbī ) was also used. Hino Jidōsha sold the vehicles. In 1961 the Hino Briska and in 1966 the Hino Ranger were produced for Hino . The brand name Humbee was abandoned in 1962 or 1965.

2001 the company headquarters was relocated to Kawajima .

vehicles

Initially, only three-wheeled commercial vehicles were on offer. The EF 11 Surrey was the first passenger car . He too had three wheels. The front resembled a motorcycle . There was space for two people behind the driver. An air-cooled single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 285 cm³ and an output of 11.5 hp drove the rear wheels via chains. Alternatively, a two-stroke engine with a displacement of 766 cm³ was available.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Humbee and Mitsui.
  • 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. 731. (English)
  • Jan P. Norbye: Cars made in Japan. Corporations · Data · Facts. All makes and models 1912–1992. Bleicher Verlag, Gerlingen 1991, ISBN 3-88350-161-1 , p. 89.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Humbee and Mitsui.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 731. (English)
  3. ↑ a b c d e 沿革 . Mitsui Seiki Kōgyō, accessed April 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  4. ^ History + Company. Mitsui Seiki Kōgyō, accessed April 19, 2016 (English).
  5. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed April 16, 2016)