Tōkyō Jidōsha Seisakusho

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Tōkyō Jidōsha Seisakusho
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
founding 1902
resolution 1911
Seat Tokyo , Japan
management
  • Shintaro Yoshida
  • Komanosuke Uchiyama
Branch Motor vehicles

KK Tōkyō Jidōsha Seisakusho ( Japanese 株式会社 東京 自動 車 製作 所 , English Tokyo Motor Vehicle Works ) was a manufacturer of motor vehicles from Japan .

Company history

Shintarō Yoshida ( 吉田 信太郎 ) had experience in automotive engineering in the USA . In 1902 he founded the company in Tokyo together with Komanosuke Uchiyama ( 内 山 ​​駒 之 助 ) . In the same year, the first car that remained a prototype was manufactured. In 1905 buses were built . The brand name for both models was Yoshida .

Series production began in 1907. The brand name was now Takuri ( タ ク リ ).

Production ended in 1909 or 1910. A total of 17 cars were built.

In 1911 it came to collaboration with Kunisue Jidōsha Seisakusho under the brand name Tokyo.

According to a source, the company was the first from Japan to make gasoline-powered automobiles for sale.

vehicles

Type 1 from 1902 had an engine with 12 hp .

This was followed by Type 2 as an omnibus. It had twelve seats and was sold to a taxi company in Hiroshima . Its engine developed 18 hp.

The following models had a four-cylinder engine or a two-cylinder engine , each with 12 hp , depending on the source . Another source names 1837 cc displacement and 8 to 12 hp. They had a front engine and rear wheel drive. Type 3 was bodied as a Landaulet and Phaeton and was 340 cm long. The body offered space for four people. There was a single headlight on the front of the vehicle . Type 4 , on the other hand, was available as a truck and panel van .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Takuri.
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1561 (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. 23 and p. 26-27.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Takuri.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1561 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d 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. 23 and p. 26-27.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h 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. 143-146 (English).
  5. ↑ ト ヨ タ 自動 車 75 年 史 ｜ 第 1 部 第 2 章 第 1 節 ｜ 第 3 項 自動 車 国産 化 ―― 快 進 社 や 白楊 社 の 挫折 . Toyota, accessed April 30, 2016 (Japanese).
  6. ^ D'Auto zu Tokyo (Dutch, accessed April 23, 2016)