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Kiichiro Toyoda

Also Known As Toyoda Kiichiro (Japanese name order); native script 豊田喜一郎
Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Japanese businessman and engineer who redirected his family's automatic loom manufacturing business into automobile production, founding what became Toyota Motor Corporation and establishing Japan's first major mass-production car manufacturer. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1894 1
Death Year
1952 1
Nationality
Japanese 1
Connections

Followed By

Soichiro Honda, Figures

Operates

Toyota Motor Corporation, Networks and Operators

Founded the automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works that became Toyota Motor Corporation in 1937.

Source Wikipedia: Kiichiro Toyoda

Preceded By

Henry Ford, Figures
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Nationality

Japan

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Kiichiro Toyoda
Wikipedia
  • Introduction
    His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacturing into automobile manufacturing created what later became Toyota.
  • In Group: Automobile Company Founders and Executives, Lead sentence
    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 engineer and businessman, and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda.
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