Industry History | Toyota — The Koromo Plant That Became Honsha
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Industry History | Toyota — The Koromo Plant That Became Honsha
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People treat Toyota City as a name that was always on the map.
The town was Koromo. The plant that renamed it was finished here, at what is now 1 Toyota-cho, on 3 November 1938.
Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. had been registered the year before, on 28 August 1937, with capital of 12 million yen, of which 9 million yen was paid in. The head office was listed at Maeyama 8, Shimoichiba, Koromo-cho. Risaburo Toyoda was president. Kiichiro Toyoda was executive vice president.
The company chose 3 November 1938 as its official founding date because that was the day the Koromo Plant, a start-to-finish works for domestic cars, held its completion ceremony.
Koromo had been a silk town. The Depression had emptied the sheds. Kiichiro argued that a car plant would not be a burden on the place. The groundbreaking was 29 September 1937. Steel was scarce under the wartime system.
The plant was renamed Honsha in 1960, after Koromo City became Toyota City in January 1959. It is still an active works. Pin the public frontage on Toyota-cho. Do not describe the gates as an invitation to enter.
The mechanism here is not a slogan about quality. It is a loom-works family that spun off an automobile department and then built a town-sized factory before the town took the company's name.
Photo: Toyota City / plant context, via Wikimedia Commons.
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