Soichiro Honda was a Japanese inventor and entrepreneur who founded Honda Motor Company. He started his career repairing bicycles and cars. He later invented piston rings and became a supplier to Toyota. After World War II destroyed his factory, he started making mopeds in his home and went on to pioneer modern motorcycles. Honda Motor Company became highly successful, producing a range of vehicles worldwide including motorcycles, cars, power equipment and more. Soichiro Honda passed away in 1991 having built a multibillion-dollar business and leaving a significant legacy in the automotive industry.
Soichiro Honda was a Japanese inventor and entrepreneur who founded Honda Motor Company. He started his career repairing bicycles and cars. He later invented piston rings and became a supplier to Toyota. After World War II destroyed his factory, he started making mopeds in his home and went on to pioneer modern motorcycles. Honda Motor Company became highly successful, producing a range of vehicles worldwide including motorcycles, cars, power equipment and more. Soichiro Honda passed away in 1991 having built a multibillion-dollar business and leaving a significant legacy in the automotive industry.
Soichiro Honda was a Japanese inventor and entrepreneur who founded Honda Motor Company. He started his career repairing bicycles and cars. He later invented piston rings and became a supplier to Toyota. After World War II destroyed his factory, he started making mopeds in his home and went on to pioneer modern motorcycles. Honda Motor Company became highly successful, producing a range of vehicles worldwide including motorcycles, cars, power equipment and more. Soichiro Honda passed away in 1991 having built a multibillion-dollar business and leaving a significant legacy in the automotive industry.
• Invented Mopeds, Motorcycles & Cars • Founder of the Honda Motor Co., Inc. corporation and automobile companies in the U.S. and Japan. • Super Cub, Acura, Civic, Accord, Prelude, City, Honda HoverCar etc • Owner of multibillion-dollar status. Achievements
• People from more than 140 countries around the
world buy its bikes, cars, boat motors, mini- tractors, autonomous power stations, tillers for farmers and other mechanisms equipped with gasoline engines. Biography
• 17 November 1906 • Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Family Background
• His mother, Mika, was a weaver
• And his father, Gihei, was a blacksmith, who ran a bicycle repair business. • His father was buying broken bikes for a knockdown price in Tokyo, repairing and selling them to all comers. Soichiro was helping his father Soichiro’s Life
• In 1922, after finishing eight years of schooling,
Soichiro noticed a job. • He joined Art Shokai Auto Repair Shop as an Helper in Tokyo. • After that he was permanently selected as an assistant in that workshop on 5 years contract. • In 3 years of signing contract he observed that he will never Learn what he wants. • He joined a new company which repaired the new car models with latest technology. • He was a part of new company for three years. Beginning Of Struggle
• After 6 years he come back to village.
• He opened a garage in his village where he repaired the cars of villagers. • After 4 years he opened a mini factory which can produce spare parts of the cars. Initial Try
• He made some spare parts.
• The companies rejected to buy his mechanical spare parts. With saying that “we don’t need your mechanical spare parts.” Piston Invention
• “find problem then its solution”
• Said the director of a company. Don’t Give Up
• Nonsense, utter nonsense about the parts we'll
discuss later, first I would like to say that the way you talk, walk a very bad tone all, the whole speech. It seems like that you are illiterate. • These words were from Director of TOYOTA corporation, when he presented his invented first piston ring for TOYOTA. Tokai Seiki
• In 1937, Honda opened his own business in
Hamamatsu., Honda founded the company ‘Tokai Seiki’ and started producing the piston rings, production technology of which had been finally found. • Now he was 40% piston provider for TOYOTA Corporation. World War II Challenges
• In 1945 (During World War II) his factory was
‘Tokai Seiki’ was targeted by American B-29. • His factory’s central plant was destroyed. • His reaction: • No problem, Not much damage has been done, said smiling • In January 1945 his factory was again damaged by an earthquake. • After that he sold out his factory to TOYOTA Corporation in 4,50000 yen. Starting a new Era
• He invented first Moped at his home.
• He received many orders to make these moped. HRI
• In 1946 Honda opened his own ‘factory’ with a
grandiloquent name – ‘Honda Technical Research Institute’ 15000 Letters
• After building of ‘Honda Technical Research
Institute’ he did not have any more funds. • He wrote 15000 letters to all Bicycle factory owners and Bicycle distributors to invest in his business • First production consist of 200 mopeds. • Unfortunately, this production was rejected by Japanese public, because they were heavy and made loud noise and also were ugly. Honda A -Type
The next model of moped proved itself
best. Because it was light, beautiful and made low noise. Pioneer Of Modern MotorBikes
• In 1949, the first model of a motorcycle with a
two-stroke engine Soichiro called ‘The Dream’. Two years later he started the production of a model with four-stroke engine. Economical Revenge Legend Lives Forever
• The legendary businessman died on August 5,
1991. By the end of his life he came up with a large store of achievements, which were 470 inventions and 150 patents, honorary doctorate at Michigan Technical University and Ohio State University, the highest honor of his country – Japan’s Blue Ribbon – and many other more achievements. Starting a business having $ 3,200 thousand dollars, he created the largest company with annual revenue of more than $ 30 billion dollars