Do we have any Members in Japan?

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2014: Do we have any Members in Japan?
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Don Watson -Florence,Colorado on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 06:04 pm:

I need someone in Japan to contact me on another Car Matter

-Don


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Don Watson -Florence,Colorado on Friday, September 26, 2014 - 10:54 pm:

Bump


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Georgetown TX on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 08:51 am:

There are several Model T's in Japan. There was a restoration shop in Sendai next to the airport train station stop. Not sure if it survived the earthquake / tsunami of 2011 though.

Here's a (improperly restored) 1914 in a Japanese museum:



Link to where I found it:
http://japaneseclass.jp/trends/about/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Todd on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 10:40 am:

Did the Japanese make any of their own cars back in T days?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Georgetown TX on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 10:58 am:

Ken,

Kinda. Japan domestic automobile manufacturing started out with license built versions of foreign makes such as British Wolseley and Morris, and Italy's Fiat.

1912 Fiat Tipo 3:


12-16 Taxable horsepower Wolsely:



The first Japanese domestic vehicles were trucks, likely Isuzu or Mitsubishi in the early 1920's. Toyota built its first prototype cars around 1937 - 38, but did not sell any cars to the public until well after WWII.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Peter Kable on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 07:58 pm:

Ken,
I know of one built in about 1912. About 40 years ago I was on a tour in Sydney Australia and we were at a judging day at a historical house. While we were there a Japanese group arrived by bus.

One old guy saw our cars and rushed over to look at them. With the help of their guide he explained he had built a car in 1912. He produced a stamp sized photo of the car a small Touring.

I was the editor of the club magazine at the time and I had to go to a professional photographer to have the photo enlarged enough to print in the magazine.

I don't think I can find the magazine now but I may still have the original photo.

Model T's were imported into Japan in the teen's some even had local bodies on them. Years ago at a swap meet I saw a Model T handbook in Japanese for sale

(Message edited by P_Kable on September 27, 2014)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Aaron Griffey, Hayward Ca. on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 11:40 pm:

Nissan made cars under license on Austin. I can't remember the others, but I think Toyota started out making cars under license of Hillman.
And Subaru was from Goliath.
They built Harleys in Japan before WW2, but a lot of them were three wheeled trucks, it seems to me they built model T Fords there in '26 and 27.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Don Watson -Florence,Colorado on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 11:50 pm:

I know there were T's in Japan but I was hoping we had a member there I could email

-Don


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Andrew Benoit on Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 09:50 am:

Don,

What are you after? I can give you the email address for the curator of the Toyota Automobile Museum in Nagoya. They have a few Model Ts. Maybe he can point you in the right direction?

Andrew


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Todd on Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 11:22 am:

Don, didn't mean to hi-jack your thread, sorry about that.

Royce, Peter and Aaron, thanks.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Don Watson -Florence,Colorado on Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 12:44 pm:

Andrew,
The email address for the Curator will work
Thank you

-Don


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