Old Toyota Factory

[OGBeno]

A new pic of the opening meeting at the Honsha plant where the LC was manufactured beginning with the BJ model and the FJ model.

 

[JohnnyC]

some factory pictures from the toyota-global site

pic1 Rolling work using a small rolling mill at the steelworks
pic2 Chemical Laboratory (chemical analysis room)
pic3 type E lathe was a production lathe designed and manufactured in the Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. Machining Plant

 

[JohnnyC]

some more

 

[JohnnyC]

and more

pic1 machining
pic2 2000lb press frame manufacture
pic3 2000lb press backing plates brake

 

[JohnnyC]

more pics

 

[OGBeno]

JD Powers today awarded Toyota Auto Body's Yoshiwara Plant with the Gold Award for manufacturing excellence:

"In the Asia Pacific region, the Lexus LX and Toyota Land Cruiser large SUV line at Toyota’s Yoshiwara, Japan, plant wins Gold, registering 18 pp 100."

Full article here:

http://wardsauto.com/auto-makers/porsche-gmc-lexus-lead-redesigned-jd-power-quality-study

 

[JohnnyC]

a few more pictures found on the Toyota global site

pic 1 ... 1933 automotive department toyoda loom works
pic 2 ... founding papers 1937
pic 3 ... 1938 koromo plant plan
pic 4 ... 1987 50th anniversary

 

[67azcruizr]

Johnny, any idea as to what they are producing in the 2nd image of post 42 and the 3rd image of post 44?

also are these images from the web or do you have some photos?

 

[JohnnyC]

I updated some of the photos with descriptions

Images from web surf global site

 

[JohnnyC]

I found this artical when looking for some factory stuff...the 1st japanese prisoner of WWII was a clerk for the Toyoda Truck Company ...a midget sub survivor on the attach on pearl harbor

Article is from 1948 newspaper....almost 62 years ago to the day

probably saw the 1st BJ Jeep roll off the line in 1951
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Interesting story here about how the sub was captured:

HA-19: Hawaii’s Lost Submarine

The only submarine that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor later became a crowd-drawing oddity, then a museum piece.

www.nationalww2museum.org

Also quite interesting Sakamaki had become the president of Toyotas Brazilian subsidiary Toyota do Brasil

I’m impressed with how Toyoda took him in… at a time when he was shunned and mocked for not dying honorably and bringing shame on Japan for being the first POW

He rose to such a high position of respect within Toyota


From reading into this gentleman it seems he went to Toyota do Brasil in 67’ … this is interesting because the owner of this wagon:

Post in thread 'FJ25 Station'

Feb 14, 2020

Adding from the bushtaxi website.... to keep pics

He has a particular soft spot for the Toyota Land Cruiser, which also has a long tradition and a great reputation in Brazil. Toyota had already exported the Land Cruiser to Brazil in 1955: The Japanese Ichiro Nashitami founded the “Sociedade Comercial Arpagral Ltda.” and took over the representation for Toyota Trucks and the Land Cruiser. After the new Japanese all-wheel drive was well received on the South American market, Nashitami-san convinced the Toyoda family to take the next logical step: From 1959, the Land Cruiser FJ25 was...

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Was Ichiro Nishitami … and he went on to become the vice president of Toyota do Brasil but stepped down when going bankrupt in 67’

So it seems there was a shake up at TdB in 67’ to bring in Sakamaki