HISTORY OF HONDA
10 Fact You Must Know About Honda - For the duration of his life, Honda's organizer, Soichiro Honda had an enthusiasm for autos. He acted as a repairman at the Art Shokai carport, where he tuned autos and entered them in races. In 1937, with financing from his associate Kato Shichirō, Honda established Tōkai Seiki (Eastern Sea Precision Machine Company) to make cylinder rings working out of the Art Shokai garage.After beginning disappointments, Tōkai Seiki won an agreement to supply cylinder rings to Toyota, yet lost the agreement because of the low quality of their products.After going to building school without graduating, and going by manufacturing plants around Japan to better comprehend Toyota's quality control forms, by 1941 Honda had the capacity mass-produce cylinder rings adequate to Toyota, utilizing a robotized procedure that could utilize even incompetent wartime worke
10 Fact you didn’t know about Honda:
- Fact 1 Honda is the largest manufacturer of engines in the world – they make over 14 million engines a year, which everything from lawnmowers to power boats.
- Fact 2 They were the first manufacturer to put four wheel steering in a production car, with the Prelude.
- Fact 3 The company was started just after the second world war by Soichiro Honda. They made engines to motorise bicycles. By 1964, they had become the largest motorbike manufacturer in the world.
- Fact 4 Honda makes a private jet aircraft, the HA420 Hondajet, which is powered by their own engines.
- Fact 5 The company invests 5% of its revenue in research and development (much higher than most large companies) and is at the cutting edge of robot technology and also space flight systems.
- Fact 6 Honda engines powered all of the cars entered in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 race. And not one retired due to engine problems!
- Fact 7 Honda powered cars dominated Formula 1 in the 80’2, winning the constructors championship for 6 consecutive years with Williams and McLaren.
- Fact 8 Honda is the major exporter of Soy Beans from the US to Japan. Why? Because they sought out something they could transport in the empty containers after shipping cars and motorcycles in the States in the 60’s and 70’s.
- Fact 9 Honda has its own airport in Japan, near to its main plant. Not surprisingly, it’s called Honda airport!
- Fact 10 almost 40 years – it was launched in 1974.