Tōkyō Jidōsha Seizo

Tōkyō Jidōsha Seizo Co. Ltd.
legal form	Co. Ltd.
founding	1934
resolution	1943
Seat	Tokyo , Japan
Branch	Motor vehicles

Tsukuba from 1935

Rear view

Tōkyō Jidōsha Seizo Co. Ltd. was a manufacturer of motor vehicles from Japan .

Company history

The Tokyo-based company began producing automobiles in 1934 or 1935 . The brand name was Tsukuba . Car production ended in 1937. Another source gives the construction time of the passenger car from 1935 to 1938. A total of about 50 or about 130 vehicles were built. Some were exported to China . Small vans were still being made until 1943 .

vehicles

The only car model resembled the small cars from Datsun and Ohta at the time . What was unusual, however, was the V4 engine with 750 cm³ displacement and the front-wheel drive . The transmission had three gears. There was a choice of roadsters , touring cars and sedans .

Another source sees a similarity to the Ford Eight and confirms the front-wheel drive. The predecessor or model was the Roland . The engine had 736 cc and 7 to 18 hp . Sedans, convertibles , Phaeton and station wagons with two doors each, as well as roadsters, small trucks and delivery as a chassis have been handed down . The vehicle length is specified as 280 cm.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Tsukuba.
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. 1625 (English).

Web links

Commons : Tōkyō Jidōsha Seizo - Collection of images, videos and audio files

d'Auto (Dutch)
Allcarindex (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Tsukuba.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 1625 (English).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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. 142-143 (English).

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Tsukuba.

[Beaulieu-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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. 1625 (English).

[Pomchi_Band_2-3] 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. 142-143 (English).