HISTORY OF HONDA
10 Fact You Must Know About Honda - Throughout his life, Honda's founder, Soichiro Honda had an interest in automobiles. He worked as a mechanic at the Art Shokai garage, where he tuned cars and entered them in races. In 1937, with financing from his acquaintance Kato Shichirō, Honda founded Tōkai Seiki (Eastern Sea Precision Machine Company) to make piston rings working out of the Art Shokai garage.After initial failures, Tōkai Seiki won a contract to supply piston rings to Toyota, but lost the contract due to the poor quality of their products.After attending engineering school without graduating, and visiting factories around Japan to better understand Toyota's quality control processes, by 1941 Honda was able to mass-produce piston rings acceptable to Toyota, using an automated process that could employ even unskilled wartime laborers.
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.
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