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Motorcycle Hall of Fame: Soichiro Honda
The founder of Honda, Soichiro Honda was a mechanical engineer with a passion for motorcycle and automobile racing. Honda started his company in 1946 by building motorized bicycles with small, war-surplus engines. Honda would grow to become the world?Ts leading manufacturer of motorcycles and later one of the leading automakers. Following its founder''s lead, Honda has always been a leader in technology, especially in the area of engine development.
Soichiro Honda was described as a maverick in a nation of conformists. He made it a point to wear loud suits and wildly colored shirts. An inventor by nature who often joined the work on the floors of his factories and research laboratories, Honda developed engines that transformed the motorcycle into a worldwide means of transportation.
Born in 1906, Honda grew up in the town of Tenryu, Japan. The eldest son of a blacksmith who repaired bicycles, the young Soichiro had only an elementary school education when, in his teens, he left home to seek his fortune in Tokyo. An auto repair company hired him in 1922, but for a year he was forced to serve as a baby-sitter for the auto shop''s owner and his wife. While employed at the auto shop, however, Honda built his own racing car using an old aircraft engine and handmade parts and participated in racing. His racing career was short lived, however. He suffered serious injuries in a 1936 crash.
By 1937, Honda had recovered from his injuries. He established his own company, manufacturing piston rings, but he found that he lacked a basic knowledge of casting. To obtain it, he enrolled in a technical high school, applying theories as he learned them in the classrooms to his own factory. But he did not bother to take examinations at the school. Informed that he would not be graduated, Honda commented that a diploma was "worth less than a movie theater ticket. A ticket guarantees that you can get into the theater. But a diploma doesn''t guarantee that you can make a living."
Hondâ?Ts burgeoning company mass-produced metal propellers during WWII, replacing wooden ones. Allied bombing and an earthquake destroyed most of his factory and he sold what was left to Toyota in 1945.
In 1946, he established the Honda Technical Research Institute to motorize bicycles with small, war-surplus engines. These bikes became very popular in Japan. The institute soon began making engines. Renamed Honda Motor in 1948, the company began manufacturing motorcycles. Business executive Takeo Fujisawa was hired to manage the company while Honda focused on engineering
In 1951, Honda brought out the Dream Type E motorcycle, which proved an immediate success thanks to Honda''s innovative overhead valve design. The smaller F-type cub (1952) accounted for 70% of Japan''s motorcycle production by the end of that year. A public offering and support from Mitsubishi Bank allowed Honda to expand and begin exporting. The versatile C100 Super Cub, released in 1958, became an international bestseller.
In 1959, the American Honda Motor was founded and soon began using the slogan, "You meet the nicest people on a Honda," to offset the stereotype of motorcyclists during that period. Though the small bikes were dismissed by the dominant American and British manufacturers of the time, the inexpensive imports brought new riders into motorcycling and changed the industry forever in the United States.
Ever the racing enthusiast, Honda began entering his company?Ts motorcycles in domestic Japanese races during the 1950s. In the mid-1950s, Honda declared that his company would someday win world championship events ?" a declaration that seemed unrealistic at the time.
In June 1959, the Honda racing team brought their first motorbike to compete in the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (T.T.) race, then the world?Ts most popular motorcycle race. This was the first entry by a Japanese team. With riders Naomi Taniguchi, who finished sixth, Teisuke Tanaka, who finished eighth, and Kiyoshi Kawashima, who would later succeed Soichiro as Honda Motor president, as team manager, Honda won the manufacturer''s prize.
However, they were not pleased with their performance. Kawashima remembers: "We were clobbered. Our horsepower was less than half that of the winner."
Learning from this experience, Soichiro and his team worked even harder to make rapid progress in their motorsports activities. Two years after their first failure, they were the sensation at the TT by capturing the first five places in both the 125cc and 250cc classes. The upstart Japanese had outclassed all their rivals. As a result of the team''s stellar performance, the Honda name became well known worldwide, and its export volume rose dramatically. Soichiro seemed to have foreseen the future of Japan, which, twenty years later, was to become one of the world''s leading economies.
Honda would become the most successful manufacturer in all of motorcycle racing. Honda has since won hundreds of national and world championships in all forms of motorcycle competition.
While Honda oversaw a worldwide company by the early-1970s (Honda entered the automobile market in 1967), he never shied away from getting his hands greasy. Sol Sanders, author of a Honda biography, said Honda appeared "almost daily" at the research lab where development work was being done. Even as president of the company, "he worked as one of the researchers," Sanders quoted a Honda engineer as saying. "Whenever we encountered a problem, he studied it along with us."
In 1973, Honda, at 67, retired on the 25th anniversary of Honda''s founding. He declared his conviction that Honda should remain a youthful company.
"Honda has always moved ahead of the times, and I attribute its success to the fact that the firm possesses dreams and youthfulness," Honda said at the time.
Unlike most chief executive officers in Japan, who step down to become chairmen of their firms, Honda retained only the title of "supreme adviser."
In retirement, Honda devoted himself to public service and frequent travel abroad. He received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, first class, the highest honor bestowed by Japan''s emperor. He also received the American auto industry''s highest award when he was admitted to the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1989. Honda was awarded the AMA?Ts highest honor, the Dud Perkins Award, in 1971.
Honda died on August 5, 1991 from liver failure at 84. His wife, Sachi, and three children survived him.
© 2007, Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum
Year Inducted: 2000
Achievements:
Co-founder of Honda Motor Company
Soichiro Honda inspects plans for the construction of the new motorcycle plant in Marysville, Ohio.
Soichiro Honda

Các bác vào đây xem cái : chú ý mốc thời gian năm 1967
http://world.honda.com/timeline/japan/
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1940''s


''46 Soichiro Honda establishes Honda Technical Research Institute in Hamamatsu.

Two years before the establishment of the company, Soichiro Honda launches his first product, repurposing an auxiliary engine that had been used to power radios for use in powering a bicycle.

''48 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. established (capitalized at ¥1 million).

1950''s


''50 Tokyo sales branch established.

''52 Head office moved to Tokyo.

''53 Yamato Factory (now Saitama Factory Wako Plant) begins operation.

''54 Production moves from Hamamatsu Yama****a Plant to Hamamatsu Aoi Plant (now Hamamatsu Factory).

1960''s


''60 Motorcycle production at Suzuka Factory begins.
R & D department spun off and incorporated as Honda R&D Co., Ltd.

''62 Construction of Suzuka circuit ( Mie Prefecture ) completed.


''64 Automobile production at Sayama Plant (now Saitama Factory) begins.

''67 Automobile production at Suzuka Factory begins.

1970''s


''70 Honda Engineering Co., Ltd., established.
Driving Safety Promotion operations inaugurated.
Mohka Parts Plant established.

''73 President Soichiro Honda and Executive Vice President Takeo Fujisawa retire and become supreme advisors.

''74 International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) established.

''76 Kumamoto Factory begins operation.

''77 Honda Foundation established.

''78 Honda Verno dealership network established.

''79 Tochigi Proving Center completed.

1980''s


''80 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. achieves annual unconsolidated net sales in excess of ¥1 trillion.

''83 Power products plant at Hamamatsu Factory completed.

''84 Honda Clio dealership network established.

''85 Honda Primo dealership network established.

''88 Kumamoto Factory receives Prime Minister''s award for local afforestation.

Supreme advisor Takeo Fujisawa passes away.
''89 Soichiro Honda becomes first Asian inducted into the US Automotive Hall of Fame.

1990''s


''91 Founder Soichiro Honda passes away.
Motorcycle production shifted from Suzuka to Hamamatsu and Kumamoto factories.

''95 Honda chosen best company for information disclosure in automobile industry in first survey by research analysts.

''96 Takasu Proving Center completed in Hokkaido .

''97 Construction of Twin Ring Motegi completed.
Hamamatsu Factory power products plant and Tochigi Factory obtain ISO14001 certification.

''98 Honda celebrates 50th anniversary.

Honda Collection Hall opens at Twin Ring Motegi.
Test facility for outboard engines in Shizuoka Prefecture opens.
2000''s


''00 Honda Green Dealership certification system introduced.
Zero industrial landfill waste achieved at all production facilities in Japan .


''01 All Honda sales operations in Japan obtain ISO14001 certification.
Honda Motorcycle Japan established.
Hosoe Factory begins operations producing outboard engines.

''02 Life Cycle Assessment system established.

''04 Automobile production transferred from Takanezawa Plant, Tochigi Factory, *****zuka Factory.

''05 FCX approved by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for public road test driving: a first for a fuel cell system that operates below 0°C. Hokkaido municipal government purchases an FCX.





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