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Kiichiro Toyoda ( Japanese: 豊田 喜一郎 とよだ きいちろう, Hepburn: Toyoda Kiichirō, June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) was a Japanese businessman and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing created what later became ...
- Tokyo Imperial University
- March 27, 1952 (aged 57), Toyota, Aichi, Japan
- June 11, 1894, Kosai, Shizuoka, Empire of Japan
- Founder and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation
History of Toyota. The history of Toyota started in 1933 with the company being a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works devoted to the production of cars under the direction of the founder's son, Kiichiro Toyoda. [1] Kiichiro Toyoda had traveled to Europe and the United States in 1929 to investigate automobile production and had begun ...
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Here, we trace the course of Kiichiro’s life. 1894. Kiichiro Toyoda born in Shizuoka Prefecture (113-2, Yamaguchi, Yoshizu-mura, Fuchi-gun) 1924. Completes non-stop shuttle change automatic loom TypeG. 1929. Transfers patent for the type G automatic loom to Platt Brothers & Co., Ltd. of the U.K. 1931.
1894 - 1952. “Before you say you can’t do something, try it.”. Kiichiro Toyoda spearheaded the creation of the first Toyota automobile and the founding of Toyota Motor Corporation in 1937. Toyoda was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1894. He was the son of Sakichi Toyoda, a noted inventor and founder of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works in ...
May 9, 2024 · As fate seemed to have it, Toyoda Boshoku (his father’s company) found itself short of one engineer who was familiar with spinning technology- Kiichiro Toyoda was asked to join. There, he worked, and being who he is, stayed for hours – days and nights, even – inside the factories learning how to spin thread and weave cloth.
1 The lecture "The position of engineers in the future" is recounted on page 510 of Toyoda Kiichiro Bunsho Shusei, September 1946.In 1929, Kiichiro delivered the anecdote when test running an automatic loom in the United States as he stopped in the country in an attempt to sell some patent rights before traveling on to England to conclude a patent transfer agreement for an automatic loom with ...
In 1921, the Toyoda Boshoku plant in Shanghai (Toyoda Boshoku Sho) was completed, and a ceremony was held at the beginning of May to mark the occasion. Kiichiro Toyoda's mother, Asako, and his sister Aiko and her husband Risaburo had left for Shanghai to attend the ceremony, while Kiichiro remained in Japan to continue learning the ins and outs ...
