Shoichiro Honda (ほんだそぅぃちろ12357190665438+10/month1month.
Honda was a grassroots apprentice all his life. He was born in a poor family in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in June/KOOC-0/906/KOOC-0/65438+/KOOC-0/0/7. He has shown a special preference for machinery since he was a child. After graduating from high school, at the age of 16, despite his father's resolute opposition, he resolutely went to a garage in Tokyo as an apprentice. After six years as an apprentice, he returned to his hometown and opened an auto repair shop in Hamamatsu City-"Hamamatsu Branch of Technology Chamber of Commerce". Due to his superb skills and sincerity, his business is very prosperous. But with a far-sighted vision, he resolutely closed his garage when the business of the garage was booming, because he felt that repairing cars would not have much future, and he should engage in more creative manufacturing.
The first venture was 1934, and Zong Ichiro founded "Donghai Seiki Company". Although he is a fledgling company, under his careful management, the company finally survived. After World War II, as a defeated country, Japan also suffered a devastating economic blow, and Honda was in a difficult situation. In addition, Toyota has already held more shares in the East China Sea before, and Zongyilang, who has a strong personality, is not willing to be controlled by others. Therefore, he transferred his shares to Toyota at the price of 450,000 yen on 1945, and completely withdrew from Donghai Seiki Company.
Second Pioneering 1946 10 10 In October, Zong Ichiro set up the "Honda Technology Research Institute" in Hamamatsu, mainly producing textile machinery, which was a major turning point in his life journey. At that time, the war had just ended and all kinds of materials were very scarce. Urban residents can only live on obviously insufficient rations, and many families have to go to the black market or even the countryside to buy high-priced food. Due to underdeveloped transportation and frequent floating population, cars, trains and other means of transportation are overloaded, and the rugged mountain roads in Japan make it very difficult to collect grain by bicycle. When Shoichiro Honda saw this scene, he immediately thought of many radio communication machines left by the army during the war. Isn't it just a power machine that can be installed on a bicycle? So, he bought a batch of communication machines at a low price, removed the small gasoline engine on it, used a kettle as a fuel tank, converted it into a small gasoline engine, and installed it on a bicycle to make a new type of "mechanical bicycle". Because the product was marketable, it immediately became a hot commodity. 1947, when the old communication machine was used up, Shoichiro Honda personally developed a 50 ml double-cylinder "Model A bicycle motor", which was the earliest "Honda motorcycle engine" and the beginning of mass production of Honda Model A motorcycle. His success has attracted people's attention, and many people are imitating Honda's "mechanical bicycle". In order to gain a firm foothold in the field of motorcycles, Shoichiro Honda decided to produce motorcycles in the true sense. 1September, 948, the "Honda Technology Research Industry Commune" was formally established and became the president, which opened the prelude to Honda's great development.
As an industrialist from a technician background, Shoichiro Honda not only has strong creative enthusiasm and ability, but also has a unique extraordinary vision and adventurous spirit. He knows that only by making the engine strong, durable and cheap can the sales of motorcycles be increased. So, in September of 1948, he personally presided over the development of the "D" engine with 98 ml two cylinders and 1.7 kW (2.3 horsepower), and based on this, he launched the "Honda-Dream D" motorcycle. 195 1 year also presided over the development of a four-stroke "e" engine and a better performance "Honda-Dream E" motorcycle. The sales of these two kinds of motorcycles are very successful, which has won profits for the company. Knowing that he was better at technology development and management, he took the initiative to contact a partner in charge of sales and company management-Takeo Fujisawa. When the other party joined Honda as managing director in June of 1949+00, all the real business power of the company was safely handed over to Fujisawa, while he only immersed himself in technology development and constantly produced advanced and marketable technologies. Thanks to decades of cooperation, Honda has grown and become a world-famous multinational group. He knows that only by improving the quality of products can the company gain a firm foothold in the fierce market competition. In addition to developing advanced products and strengthening technical training for employees, he also actively introduced advanced processing equipment. When other companies saw Honda's success, they began to produce motorcycles in succession, and more than 65,438+000 motorcycle manufacturers emerged all over the country. The market competition is extremely fierce. 1952, although Honda's capital increased by 10 times-150,000 yen, it imported leprosy equipment worth 450 million yen from the United States, Germany, Switzerland and other places and put it into production, which surprised others. It turned out that his risky move was not wrong. Due to the comprehensive effect of advanced processing equipment and other factors, Honda's products have always maintained a high-quality best-selling market and stood firm in the fierce market competition. At the end of 1950s, there were only over 50 motorcycle manufacturers in Japan, including 30 in 1960, 8 in 1965 and 4 in 1970-Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki. In this fierce competition, Honda has always maintained its true colors as a winner.
In the era of Honda, he knew that he must take the strategic route of diversified products in order to be invincible in the fierce market competition forever. Honda began to set foot in automobile production on 1962 after successfully operating motorcycles. They used their rich experience and a lot of money in motorcycle development and management to devote themselves to automobile development and achieved great success: they successively launched automobile products such as "T360" truck, "S500" car and "N360" car, among which "N360" car became the best-selling model in the world; The CVCC engine designed and developed, and the car equipped with it, caused a great sensation in the 1975 world automobile industry because of its good pollution control effect, and won countless profits and high commercial reputation for the company.
Make full use of effective opportunities to promote enterprises and products, and actively participate in various vehicle competitions. 196 1 year, he defeated the long-term monopoly of British motorcycles in the competitions held in Britain, and often won in future competitions, thus establishing his position in the international motorcycle market. Later, he won the Formula One car race, which marked the highest level of cars in the world, thus establishing his position in this field. 199 1 On August 5th, 2008, Shoichiro Honda, who left a glorious legacy for the world automobile industry, passed away. However, his corporate slogan of "three pleasures" (buying joy, selling joy and manufacturing joy) and his business experience of "three respects" (respecting theory, creativity and time) will continue to play its due role.
A Brief History of Honda Ichiro 1906 was born in the home of Honda Yiping, a blacksmith in Guangming Village, Pantian County, Shizuoka Prefecture. He is the eldest son of the family.
19 13 entered Lidong Ordinary Primary School in Guangming Village. I saw this car for the first time the following year.
19 17 guest Song Cheng and Dishan joint military field to watch the air show. I saw an airplane for the first time in my life.
19 19 studied in erkumaqi normal high school.
1922 After graduating from high school, he joined the "ァート Chamber of Commerce" (then known as an apprentice, Japanese for "Zhi Ding dedicates to the public") in the auto repair shop in Tangdao, Tokyo (now bunkyo-ku).
1928 After working in the Chamber of Commerce for 6 years, we set up an independent branch in Hamamatsu. The factory only authorizes one person to operate Honda.
1935, he married a primary school teacher, Iwabe.
1937 continuously expand the business of auto repair shops. As the general manager of Donghai Seiki Industry Co., Ltd., ァートピストンリング Institute was established in Yamashita-CHO, Hamamatsu City to research and develop piston devices. At that time, he felt lack of knowledge. In the same year, he entered the Department of Advanced Industrial Machinery in Hamamatsu (now the Engineering Department of Shizuoka University) and spent three years studying metallurgy.
1939 hamamatsu branch of the chamber of commerce became a worker, and Donghai Seiki Heavy Industry, which independently developed and manufactured pistons, began to provide auto parts.
1942 The eldest son Honda Bojun was born. Donghai Seiki Heavy Industry accepted the capital injection from Toyota, and gave the position of general manager to Ishida, who is known as the hero of Toyota Zhongxing, and served as a director himself.
1944, the propeller automatic cutting machine was successfully developed, which improved the working efficiency from cutting 1 piece in the previous week (manual cutting) to cutting 2 pieces in 30 minutes, so it was commended by the Japanese military. At that time, more than 40 patents had been obtained.
1945 Sanhe earthquake led to the bankruptcy of Donghai Seiki Heavy Industry Hamamatsu Factory. Honda transferred all the shares of Donghai Seiki Heavy Industry to Toyota Automatic Textile Machinery Co., Ltd., and announced that it would leave its job and start to recuperate 1 year.
1946 10 10 In October, 39-year-old Shoichiro Honda established Honda Institute of Technology in Hamamatsu.
The second son was born in 1948. Established Honda Technology Research Industry Company in Hamamatsu. As the president of the club. The capital reached 6,543,800,000 yen, and the number of employees was 20. Started developing motorcycles.
1949, I met Takeo Fujisawa, who later became the deputy general manager of Honda, and they developed Honda into a world-class enterprise.
1973 resigned as the president of Honda technology research industry and served as the highest adviser to the directors. 1983 resigned as president and became the highest advisor for life.
198 1 was awarded the first-class Ruibao Medal.
1989 became the first Japanese to enter the American Automobile Hall of Fame.
199 1 passed away in Shuntian Hospital in Tokyo on August 5, at the age of 84 years and 8 months. Take the plus three? First-class chapter of the rising sun.
Anecdotal Quotations Shoichiro Honda trusted Takeo Fujisawa very much and gave him all the company's seals for safekeeping. Fujisawa is responsible for the operation of the company, while I focus on the research and development of the technical department. Zong Ichiro once said that "without Fujisawa, the company would close down soon", and Fujisawa also said that "without Mr. Honda, the company could not have today's scale." Neither entrepreneur regarded the enterprise as personal property, and never let his family enter the management of the enterprise. Some people even say that Honda regretted using its own name in its later years.
Suzuka once proposed to change the name of the city to Honda, but Zong Ichiro thought that "it is ridiculous to add personal names to the name of the city." , has resolutely rejected the proposal.
Honda once said, "The president is nothing. It is no different from section chief, minister, kitchen knife and cecum (note: kitchen knife and cecum are pronounced at the end of the words "President and section chief" in Japanese). All in all, it is nothing more than a sign. " He also said to Gina, a famous Brazilian racing driver, "I want to build the most perfect engine in the world." Gina was moved to tears.
He left a will before his death, thinking that after the death of the automobile manufacturer, he could not hold a luxurious funeral, causing traffic jams. In fact, the survivors also respected his wishes and did not have a big funeral.
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