Soichiro Honda ( ???? , Honda S? ichir? , November 17, 1906 - August 5, 1991) is a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he founded Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversee its expansion from wooden bike manufacturing shacks into multinational automobiles and motorcycles.
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Initial years
Honda was born in Tenry ?, Shizuoka, a small village under Mount Fuji near Hamamatsu on November 17, 1906. He spent his childhood helping his father, Gihei, a blacksmith, with his bicycle repair business. At that time his mother, Mika, was a weaver. Honda is not interested in traditional education. The school submitted a report of value to the children, but requested that they be returned with a family stamp, to ensure that parents have seen it. Soichiro made a stamp to forge his family seal from the pedal cover of a used rubber bike. The scam was soon discovered when Honda started making fake stamps for other children. Honda did not know that the stamp should be imaged by the mirror. His family name ?? symmetrical when written vertically, so it does not cause problems, but some other children's surnames do not.
Even when he was a toddler, Honda was very pleased with the first car ever seen in his village, and often told him later that he could never forget the smell of oil he was releasing. Soichiro borrowed one of his father's bikes to see a demonstration of an airplane made by Art Smith's pilot, which reinforced his love of machinery and invention.
At the age of 15, without formal education, Honda left home and went to Tokyo to find work. He obtained an apprenticeship in a garage in 1922, and after some hesitance over his work, he stayed for six years, working as a car mechanic before returning home to start his own car repair business in 1928 at the age of 22.
Honda raced a turbocharged Ford in the "1st Japan Automobile Race" at Tamagawa Speedway in 1936. He crashed and was mortally wounded in his left eye. His brother was also wounded. After that, he stopped the race.
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Development of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
In 1937, Honda founded T? Kai Seiki to produce piston rings for Toyota. During World War II, US B-29 bomber attacks destroyed Yam's factory T? Kai Seiki in 1944 and Iwata's factory collapsed in the 1945 Mikawa earthquake. After the war, Honda sold the remnants of a company that could be saved to Toyota for 450,000 yen and used the proceeds to establish the Honda Technical Research Institute in October 1946. In 1948, he started producing a complete motorcycle, Type A, powered by the first mass-produced machine designed by Honda, and sold until 1951. Type D in 1949 was a true motorcycle with a pressed steel frame designed and manufactured by Honda and with 2 -stroke, 98Ã, cc (6.0 Â ° cu in 3o engine, hp (2.2 kW), and became the first model in the Dream of motorcycles series Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (in Japanese) lists Type A and Type D models as two of them 240 Japan Automotive Landmark Technology .
As president of Honda Motor Company, Soichiro Honda transformed the company into a multibillion-dollar multinational company that produces the world's best-selling motorcycle. Honda's engineering and marketing skills resulted in Honda motorcycles beating Triumph and Harley-Davidson in their home markets. The following year, Honda became acquainted with Takeo Fujisawa, whom he knew during his days as a piston ring supplier to Nakajima Aircraft Company. Honda hired Fujisawa, who oversaw the financial side of the company and helped the company grow. In 1959, Honda Motorcycles opened its first dealer in the United States.
Honda remained president until his retirement in 1973, where he remained as director and was appointed "highest counselor" in 1983. His status was such that the People's magazine placed him on "The Most Exciting 25 People from them". Year "list for 1980, dubbing him" Henry Ford Japan. "In retirement, Honda was busy with work related to the Honda Foundation.
Recent years
Even in old age, Soichiro and his wife Sachi both hold private pilot licenses. He also enjoys skiing, golf, racing cars, hang-gliding and ballooning at 77, and he is a very accomplished artist. He and Takeo Fujisawa made arrangements to never force their own son to join the company. His son, Hirotoshi Honda, is the founder and former CEO of Mugen Motorsports, a tuner for Honda vehicles that also created original racing vehicles.
ASME founded Soichiro Honda Medal in recognition of Mr. Honda in 1982; this medal recognizes outstanding achievements or significant technical contribution in the field of personal transportation. In 1989, he was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame near Detroit. Soichiro Honda died on August 5, 1991, just days before the Hungarian Grand Prix failed. He was posthumously elevated to third-ranking seniors in a preferred order and appointed Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun Order.
Awards
- Grand Cordon from the Sunrise Order (August 5, 1991; posthumous)
- Third Ranking Senior (August 5, 1991; posthumous)
- Golden Pheasant of the Scout Association of Japan (1991)
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