TOYOTA HISTORY
Sakichi Toyoda
Toyota Wooden Hand Loom
Chuo Spinning Company
Toyoda Boshoku
Diversifying into Automotive Components
In the spinning and weaving business, Toyoda Boshoku faced frequent difficulties, but its diversification into automotive components enabled it to achieve a level of product engineering that satisfies customers worldwide, continually striving to develop new products and technologies in business fields related to auto interiors, exteriors, and engines.
In 1890, Sakichi completed his first invention:the Toyoda Wooden Hand Loom.
Returning to his village, Sakichi began working to improving the hand loom, whichi at the time was a clumsy and inconvenient device. This device was the first in a long line of looms that Sakichi would make. Sakichi next turned its research efforts toward power looms, and in November 1896 he invented the Toyoda Power Loom. This steam-driven loom, made of a combination of wood and iron, was Japan's first power loom. The Toyoda Power Loom was the first step toward the full-scale development of power looms.
In February 1942, companies were being consolidated under the wartime command economy.Toyoda Boshoku was merged with an affiliate, becoming Chuo Spinning Company. The photo shows the company's Kariya works.
It was subsequently again merged, this time with Toyota Motor Co., Ltd.(now the Toyota Motor Corporation), which Toyoda Automatic Loom Works(now Toyota Industries Corporation)had earlier spun off. In the confusion of the war, the company's mission changed several times, including the halt of spinning and weaving operations.
In June 1967, then Toyota chairman Taizo Ishida became chairman of Minsei Spinning.
Ishida made drastic reforms to the company, also changing the company name to Toyoda Boshoku at the first general sharefolders' meeting after his appointment.
Bound up in this name change was Ishida's desire to carry on the heritage of the name given the company by Sakichi Toyoda, and give the company a
Toyota Wooden Hand Loom
Chuo Spinning Company
Toyoda Boshoku
Diversifying into Automotive Components
In the spinning and weaving business, Toyoda Boshoku faced frequent difficulties, but its diversification into automotive components enabled it to achieve a level of product engineering that satisfies customers worldwide, continually striving to develop new products and technologies in business fields related to auto interiors, exteriors, and engines.
In 1890, Sakichi completed his first invention:the Toyoda Wooden Hand Loom.
Returning to his village, Sakichi began working to improving the hand loom, whichi at the time was a clumsy and inconvenient device. This device was the first in a long line of looms that Sakichi would make. Sakichi next turned its research efforts toward power looms, and in November 1896 he invented the Toyoda Power Loom. This steam-driven loom, made of a combination of wood and iron, was Japan's first power loom. The Toyoda Power Loom was the first step toward the full-scale development of power looms.
In February 1942, companies were being consolidated under the wartime command economy.Toyoda Boshoku was merged with an affiliate, becoming Chuo Spinning Company. The photo shows the company's Kariya works.
It was subsequently again merged, this time with Toyota Motor Co., Ltd.(now the Toyota Motor Corporation), which Toyoda Automatic Loom Works(now Toyota Industries Corporation)had earlier spun off. In the confusion of the war, the company's mission changed several times, including the halt of spinning and weaving operations.
In June 1967, then Toyota chairman Taizo Ishida became chairman of Minsei Spinning.
Ishida made drastic reforms to the company, also changing the company name to Toyoda Boshoku at the first general sharefolders' meeting after his appointment.
Bound up in this name change was Ishida's desire to carry on the heritage of the name given the company by Sakichi Toyoda, and give the company a