Otomo (car brand)

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Otomo
owner Hakuyosha Ironworks
Introductory year 1924
Products Automobiles
Markets Japan , China
Replica of an Otomo
engine

Otomo was a Japanese car brand.

Brand history

The engineer Junya Toyokawa, who studied mechanical engineering in the USA , was already producing twelve automobiles in 1921 for the Hakuyosha Ironworks company in Tokyo , which were marketed as ales . Series production began in 1924 under the brand name Otomo . Production ended in 1927. A total of around 270 vehicles or around 300 vehicles were built.

The first Japanese vehicle for export is an Otomo that was sold to Shanghai .

vehicles

The first Otomo had an air-cooled four-cylinder engine with 944 cc displacement and 18 hp power. The transmission had three gears. There was a choice of two-seaters, touring cars , limousines and panel vans .

From 1926 a water-cooled engine with OHV valve control and 24 hp was available.

Another source names the Model S on the one hand . Engines with 945 cm³ displacement and 9 to 12 HP output, 980 cm³, 1331 cm³ and 1487 cm³ displacement have been passed on. The front engine drove the rear wheels. The vehicles were 303 cm long. Production ran from 1924 to 1927. At first there was only a two-door Phaeton , a roadster and a panel van. A two-door sedan was added in 1925. At least in the Phaeton, the steering wheel and front seat were arranged centrally, and behind them a bench seat for two people. Between 1926 and 1927 it also gave the Model M . For this, 1770 cm³ displacement and 12 to 20 HP as well as 1610 cm³ displacement and 24 HP are handed down. There was a choice of a two-door sedan, a four-door Phaeton and a panel van. The vehicles were 360 ​​cm long.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Otomo.
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1160 (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. 28.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Otomo.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1160 (English).
  3. ^ A b 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. 28.
  4. ↑ Jeremy Risdon: Pomchi Book of Cars, Vans & Light Trucks. Volume 1. Japan 1902-1934 . Pomchi Press, Yate 2017, ISBN 978-1-5332-8268-2 , pp. 78-81 (English).