If it wasn't for chasing his high school girlfriend, Brother Man might have been admitted to South China Normal University and is now a people's teacher. However, with the virtue of Brother Man, it is estimated that he is also a misguided disciple. In fact, Brother Man still wants to be a teacher, so he plans to open a car company history class, only blowing family history, pure storytelling.
Today, let's start with the Mazda in Japan.
Some people may not know that there are only two century-old car companies in Japan, Mazda is one of them, and Toyota-Honda is not (Toyota 85 years, Honda 74 years).
The founder of Mazda was Shigejiro Matsuda. In the past, the Japanese named the baby more casually, and called it down in order of Ichiro/Taro, Erlang/Jiro, Sanlang, and Shiro, similar to the visual sense of big hair, two hairs, three hairs, and four hairs. So Matsuda Shigejiro is the youngest of the 12 siblings in the family.
Matsuda Shigejiro was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1875, the place where the atomic bomb was first dropped, which directly changed Mazda's fate.
Shigejiro's family is generally poor, so many mouths, it is not bad to eat enough, and it is not money to read. So when Shigejiro was 13 years old, he went to Osaka, more than 300 kilometers away, to work as an apprentice in a blacksmith shop.
In the Qing Dynasty of the same period, the blacksmith shop was the kind of small workshop where macho men pulled bellows shirtlessly and hammered iron hammers to burn red iron blocks.
But Japan is in the midst of the Meiji Restoration, with its national power rising and its manufacturing booming. Therefore, in the blacksmith shop, Shigejiro actually came into contact with mechanical manufacturing, and he had the idea that "mechanical industry is his own destiny field". With this in mind, he went around stealing teachers from other factories, learning about mechanics and manufacturing principles, and even went to work at Mitsubishi's shipyard in Nagasaki.
It was hidden for more than a decade, and in 1906, the 31-year-old Shigejiro became a boss.
That year, Soichiro Honda landed on the ground, and Kiichiro Toyoda was in elementary school.
Shigejiro Matsuda rented a dilapidated hut in Osaka and hung a sign called "Matsuda Manufacturing House". Relying on his own invention of the Matsuda type water pump, he earned the first bucket of gold.
After working outside for so many years, Shigejiro suddenly lost his home. At the age of 43, he returned to his hometown of Hiroshima to continue his work, and two years later, by chance, he became the president of Toyo Cork Industries. It was 1920 and is considered the founding year of Mazda. So Mazda is celebrating its 102nd anniversary this year.
This is also the origin of "Mazda started with a wine bottle stopper".
In fact, the main product of the cork factory is not a wine bottle stopper, but an innovative pressed wooden stopper board, which can be used as a heat insulation and cushioning material, and is very popular.
However, just when Shigejiro was triumphant, a big fire burned the factory to the ground and owed a huge debt.
That year, Shigejiro was just 50 years old and knew his destiny fifty years old, and Shigejiro did not collapse, but found his own destiny. Return to the machinery industry, remove the "cork" of the Toyo cork industry, and there is todayo industry.
At that time, the Kanto earthquake was encountered, and the reconstruction work relied heavily on means of transport. Four-wheeled cars were too expensive, and Shigejiro took aim at the opportunity to create a cheap and flexible three-wheeled truck. In 1931, Toyo Kogyo introduced the first three-wheeled wagon Type-GO. On the body, for the first time, the Mazda logo appeared.
Mazda is the Japanese transliteration of "Matsuda", which is the same as toyota's transliteration of Toyota and Honda's transliteration of Honda. Only after it spread to the Chinese-speaking area, Mazda did not call back "Matsuda", Toyota did not call "Stealing Oil", honda did not call "Boom" (but was stolen by the little clever ghost Lifan).
The Mitsubishi logo behind Mazda is because the weak Mazda does not have its own sales channels and relies on the Mitsubishi gang to sell.
Because of their flexibility, reliability and affordability, Mazda's tricycles are popular. Later, the Type-TCS, Type-KC and other models were successively introduced.
Many have also been sold to China, becoming the grandfather of three-wheeled locomotives and becoming synonymous with "three trampolines". In Nanjing, for example, Mazda is a bit crying and laughing, because now there are signs everywhere that prohibit Mazda from entering.
Nanjing people all drive Mercedes,Rolls Royce, you drive a mazda, no wonder people don't give in (/doge).
Not long after, with the invasion of Japanese devils, Toyo Industries was also requisitioned to produce armaments, and received many military orders for firearms. As everything later became known, the Americans dropped atomic bombs directly on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was Hiroshima because Hiroshima was the center of Japan's heavy industry and military industry at that time.
Toyo Industries in Hiroshima is naturally not immune. However, the 70-year-old Shigejiro survived, and his second son died in a nuclear explosion. And because he did not participate in the planning of the war and was not identified as a war criminal, Toyo Industries was also exempted from sanctions.
Japan was defeated, military orders were stopped, and everything had to start all over again.
Shigejiro Matsuda, 70, sighed and dragged his body affected by radiation and the pain of losing his son, and threw himself into this fate. In 1949, Toyo Kogyo launched a new three-wheeled truck, mazda Type-GB, equipped with a 0.7L engine and a stronger loading capacity, and quickly became a sought-after commodity for post-war reconstruction work.
In 1950, the Mazda Type-CT tricycle was introduced, using a V-twin engine and the first use of the front windshield in the industry.
In the same year, Toyo Kogyo launched its first four-wheeled automobile product: Mazda Type-CA. Regardless of the launch of this four-wheeled pickup truck, Matsuda Shigejiro's involvement has been completed in the founder's final years, and he has completed his mission, which has brought his lifelong obsession with mechanical manufacturing to a successful end.
In 1952, Shigejiro Matsuda died. Although the leaders of the first generation of Mazda came to an end, his dedication and fascination with machinery profoundly affected his successor, the eldest son, Matsuda Kenji. So Mazda, under the leadership of the new BOSS, began a new automotive chapter.
This is basically Mazda's history of his family, as for the later development history is more boring, ManGe will not blow.
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