Origin of Toyota

Toyota Motor Corporation was originally a machine

manufacturing company called Toyoda Automatic
Loom Works, Ltd. and was owned by Sakichi Toyoda.

But it was his son, Kiichiro Toyoda who branched out

into automobile manufacturing.

 The first type A engine was created in 1936.

 History of Toyota
Toyota started in 1933 with the company being a
division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works devoted to
the production of automobiles under the direction of​
Kiichiro Toyoda.

Kiichiro Toyoda had travelled to Europe and the

United States in 1929 to investigate automobile
production and had begun researching gasoline-
powered engines in 1930.

He was encouraged to develop automobile production

by the Japanese government.
In 1934, the division produced its first Type A Engine,
which was used in the first Model A1 passenger car in
May 1935 and the G1 truck in August 1935.
After the world war II, commercial passenger car
production started in 1947 with the model SA.
The Crown became the first Japanese car to be
exported to the United States and Toyota's America
and Brazilian divisions.
Toyota Co. was established as an independent and
separate company in 1937.
 Although the company name was changed.
Toyota was considered luckier than Toyoda in
Japan.
Toyota began to expand in the 1960s with a new
research and development facility.
The first Toyota built outside Japan was in April
1963, at Port Melbourne in Australia.