Suminoe Kōgyō

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Suminoe Kōgyō
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding September 1943
Seat Kyōtanabe
Branch Vehicle seats
Website www.suminoekogyo.co.jp

Suminoe Flying Feather from 1955

Suminoe Kōgyō KK ( Japanese 住 江 工業 株式会社 ) is a manufacturer of vehicle seats from Japan .

Company history

In September 1943, the textile company Suminoe Orimono founded the subsidiary Nara Mokuzai Kōgyō ( 奈良 木材 工業 , "Wood Products Nara ") for furniture production. In July 1944, the name was changed to Nara Kōkūki Kōgyō ( 奈良 航空 機 工業 , "Nara aircraft products"), with wooden parts for aircraft being manufactured, and in October 1945 the name was changed to KK Suminoe Seisakusho ( 株式会社 住 江 製作 所 ) and became independent in February 1954 .

The company from Kyōtanabe produced vehicle seats and bodies from 1947 . One customer was Datsun . In 1954, the production of automobiles began under the direction of Yutaka Katayama . The brand name was Suminoe . Automobile production ended in 1955. In total, fewer than 200 vehicles were built.

In August 1983 the company took on its current name.

vehicles

The only model was the Flying Feather ( フ ラ イ ン グ フ ェ ザ ー , Furaingu Fezā ). This was a 425 kg small car with two seats. An air-cooled V2 engine with 350 cm³ displacement and 12 hp was mounted in the rear and drove the rear wheels. The transmission had three gears. The maximum speed was given as 64 km / h.

literature

Web links

Commons : Suminoe Kōgyō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 会 社 案 内 沿革 . Suminoe Kōgyō, accessed April 29, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 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 Suminoe.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1540. (English)
  4. ↑ a b www.earlydatsun.com (English, accessed on April 23, 2016)
  5. ↑ a b Flying Feather. In: Toyota Automobile Museum . Toyota, accessed April 29, 2016 (Japanese / English).