Rikuo Nainenki

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Rikuo Nainenki
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha
founding 1936
resolution 1962
Seat Hiroshima , Japan
Branch Motor vehicles

Motorcycle from 1950
1957 motorcycle
1959 motorcycle

Rikuo Nainenki was a Japanese manufacturer of motor vehicles .

prehistory

From 1932, Sankyo Seiyako from Shinagawa produced commercial vehicles. There was also a connection to Harley-Davidson . The brand name was accordingly also Harley-Davidson .

Company history

Rikuo Nainenki was founded in 1936 as the successor company. Tokyo is initially specified as the production location . Production continued. It wasn't until 1937 that the brand name was changed to Rikuo . In 1949 the plant in Shinagawa was closed and production continued at the headquarters in Hiroshima . Production ended in 1962.

vehicles

One product line was motorcycles . They have been handed down from 1949 or 1953 at the latest and were made until 1962. At first they resembled the Harley-Davidson models. V2 engines with 996 cm³ and 1198 cm³ displacement are known. Later BMW motorcycles were the models. One source mentions single-cylinder engines with 248 cm³ and 348 cm³ displacement.

From 1932 to 1949, motor tricycles based on the Harley-Davidson Servi-Car were built . In principle, they were motorcycles whose rear wheel was replaced by a rear axle. Depending on the version, there was a flatbed or a box for luggage in the rear. They had a Daihatsu frame and a Harley-Davidson gasoline engine . The smaller of two models from the period up to 1937 was the RL Servicar with a length of 280 cm. Motors with 493 cm³ displacement and 10 HP output as well as 747 cm³ displacement and 19 HP have been passed on. The VL had a reinforced frame, a larger cargo space and an engine with 1210 cc and 30 hp. Under the new brand name it became 750 RD Servicar and 1200 cc . The cubic capacity was 747 cm or 1213 cm, the vehicle length was a uniform 280 cm. From 1940 to 1942 the vehicles were called 750 Truck and 1200 Truck . For the weaker model, a V2 engine with 747 cm³ displacement and 14.8 hp, 193 cm wheelbase and 280 cm vehicle length has been handed down. Only the capacity of 1200 cm³ is known of the more powerful model. The weaker model was produced again after the Second World War . The construction period was from 1946 to 1949.

A car model was made between 1938 and 1940 . The Type 98 was an off-road vehicle in the style of the Type 95 reconnaissance vehicle . It had an engine with a capacity of 1300 cc. It was mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered all four wheels.

literature

  • 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. 82-83 (English).
  • Jeremy Risdon: Pomchi Book of Cars, Vans & Light Trucks. Volume 2. Japan 1935-1939 . Pomchi Press, Yate 2017, ISBN 978-1-983476-36-5 , pp. 118-119 (English).
  • Jeremy Risdon: Pomchi Book of Cars, Vans & Light Trucks. Volume 3. Japan 1940-1949 . Pomchi Press, Yate 2018, ISBN 978-1-72004-729-2 , pp. 80-81 (English).

Web links

Commons : Rikuo Nainenki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jeremy Risdon: Pomchi Book of Cars, Vans & Light Trucks. Volume 2. Japan 1935-1939 . Pomchi Press, Yate 2017, ISBN 978-1-983476-36-5 , pp. 118-119 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d 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. 82-83 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Jeremy Risdon: Pomchi Book of Cars, Vans & Light Trucks. Volume 3. Japan 1940-1949 . Pomchi Press, Yate 2018, ISBN 978-1-72004-729-2 , pp. 80-81 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c Erwin Tragatsch: All motorcycles. 1894 until today. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-410-7 , p. 367.