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In 1952 Honda produced the first "Cub" F-Type, a 1/2 horsepower, 50cc, By October 1951 the new Dream was in production at the rate of It had a steel frame and proper suspensionįront and rear. It turned out to be the 146cc, OHV, four-stroke E-Type Dream. To produce better and more sophisticated machines. Soichiro Honda was an engineer and was always looking Honda called his machine 'The Dream', because his dream of building a complete, This was far from simply slotting a motor into a pushbike frame. Of the two-stroke D-Type Dream's design and manufacture. He hooked up with financial whiz Takeo Fujisawa and together they built anġ948 saw Honda introduce a 90cc version of the A-Type known as the "B-Type".īy 1949 Honda came out with the "D-Type".
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Soichiro Honda started Honda Motor Company in 1948, at the age of 41. Because the motorbike gave off a lot of smoke andĪ stench of turpentine it was known as the "Chimney". In November 1947, the 1/2 horsepower A-Type Honda was being manufactured and Using the surplus motor as a model, Honda designed and built his Business was good by then, so he decided to manufacture Honda's first bikes were very successful and supplies of the surplus engines ran Pedaling to warm the engine up enough before you could get going. Was not the best thing for powering motorbikes, and required a lot of strenuous Turpentine (or gas thinned out with turpentine) His motors to run on turpentine, a fuel that he himself distilled from pine Because gasoline was in short supply, Honda adapted Small factory in Hamamatsu was making complete, makeshift motor bikes using His aim was to adapt them for attachment to push-bikes and, by October 1946, his Problems, Honda came across a job lot of 500 war surplus two-stroke motorsĭesigned to power electric generators nobody else wanted them so Honda picked Looking for a solution to his, and thousands of others', personal transport Where public transportation was desperately overcrowded and gasoline severely Honda'sįirst motorcycle was born out of necessity in immediate post World War II Japan, Honda Motor Company is by far the world's biggest motorcycle maker. So his company built bigger and faster machines, two,įour, five and six-cylinder race bikes and won the Isle of Man. Transportation, and began producing small motorcycles, including one built in He dreamed of giving people everywhere an economical form of Of a better way of making piston rings, founded a small company, and began Soichiro Honda was a racer,Ī businessman, and a manufacturer. The Honda story is the story of one man, Soichiro Honda, and his unparalleledĪchievement of bringing motor cycles to the masses. Designs Peugeot Piaggio Revival Cycles Rickman Roehr Roland Sands Royal Enfield Sachs Shaw Speed Sherco Sunbeam Suzuki SWM SYM TM Racing Triumph TVS Ural Velocette Vespa Victory Vilner Vincent VOR Voxan Vyrus Walt Siegl Walz Wrenchmonkees Wunderlich XTR / Radical Yamaha Zero AC Schnitzer Adler AJP AJS Aprilia Ariel Arlen Ness ATK Avinton / Wakan Bajaj Bakker Barigo Benelli Beta Big Bear Big Dog Bimota BMS Choppers BMW Borile Boss Hoss Boxer Brammo BRP Cam-Am BSA Buell / EBR Bultaco Cagiva Campagna CCM CF Moto Combat Motors CR&S Daelim Derbi Deus DP Customs Ducati Excelsior GASGAS Ghezzi Brian Gilera GIMA Harley-Davidson Harris Hartford HDT USA Hesketh Hero Highland Honda Horex HPN Husaberg Husqvarna Hyosung Indian Italjet Jawa Junak Kawasaki KTM KYMCO Laverda Lazareth Lehman Trikes LIFAN Magni Maico Mash Matchless Matt Hotch Midual Mission Molot Mondial Moto Guzzi Moto Morini Mr Martini Münch MV Agusta MZ / MuZ NCR Norton NSU OCC Paton Paul Jr.