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| Toyota Model AA in 1936. |
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| The beginning of the Toyota story: automatic loom in 1926. |
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| Employees of Toyota automotive department, 1933. |
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| Toyota Crown in 1960. |
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| Toyota Corolla from 1966. |
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| Toyota importer in the UK, 1964 |
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| Toyota Germany, 1974 |
The start of production in the first manufacturing facility for vehicles on 3 November 1937 at the factory Koromo the occasion is, the Toyota on Saturday (3.11). Than 75 Foundation Day celebrated. A look back shows the unusual history of the automaker.
The origins of the Toyota story can even be traced back more than a century far as Kiichiros father Sakichi Toyoda Toyota the company Enterprise was set up. He and his son, the first automatic loom in the world. Kiichiro Toyoda in 1929 to England, to the world's largest textile producer Platt Brothers & Co. to complete a patent agreement for the G-type loom. He made his way across the United States in order to build a picture of how there had developed the automotive industry - and made the decision to build cars themselves.
Within the paternal loom company Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, a department of a team of engineers was settled. Its original plan to build motorcars, Kiichiro had to change the face of impending war. He devoted himself to the production of trucks and In 1935, after less than six months of development time before the model G1.
The first car produced
Once the truck production had begun again Kiichiro devoted passenger car development. The first prototype Model AA was completed in 1936. You should now have - through a public competition - an appropriate brand name can be found. The choice fell on the Japanese characters for "Toyota", partly because of the name in the Japanese writing eight spring coats were needed. The Eight is a lucky number in Japan. The Toyota brand was born. And on 28 August 1937, the Toyota Motor Company (now Toyota Motor Corporation) was founded.
After World War II, the engineers began in November 1945 with the development of the 1.0-liter four-cylinder engine type S and presented in 1947 before the first post-war cars from Toyota: the two-door and 27 hp SA. The nickname of the SA, "Toyopet" became the trademark for Toyota small car.
After a financial crisis in the early 1950s was devoted Toyota increasing production efficiency and quality. To the just-in-time method now arrived quality checks added after the model of loom production. They should be known as Jidoka. The new production system - a combination of just-in-time and Jidoka - was introduced in 1963 in all sites and is still the cornerstone of Toyota's global production facilities.
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