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On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:26:11 -0600, Ray O wrote:
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> "Hachiroku ??????" <Trueno@AE86.gts> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:47:37 -0600, n5hsr wrote:[/color]
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>> In 1937, the department was spun off and became an independent company
>> inside the group, which continues to make textile machinery. The name of
>> the new company was changed from Toyoda to Toyota - one you will probably
>> hear if you go on one of the plant tours. The name "Toyota" for the
>> company instead of the family name "Toyoda" for several reasons. First,
>> Kiichiro Toyoda wanted to make a distinction between his family (private
>> life) and his company (public life). In Japan, people count the number of
>> strokes it takes to write kanji, hiragana or katakana. In katakana, it
>> takes 10 strokes to write "Toyoda" and 8 strikes to write "Toyota". In
>> Japanese, eight is a good number because the kanji used to write eight
>> also has the meaning of "infinity".
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>> [url]http://www.tundrasolutions.com/photopost/data/500/medium/toyotalogo2.JPG[/url][/color]
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> Besides automotive-related businesses, Toyota also imports wine from CA to
> Japan for sale on passenger trains and carpet and building materials for use
> in their pre-fabricated housing division. Toyota has a machine-tool
> division, textile machine division that makes automatic looms, sewing
> machines, and embroidery machines, and they used to be the Cessna
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WOW! I knew about the Textile part (That's how they started) but wine?
Cessnas?

Very interesting!