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FEATURE STORY

Soichiro Honda impressed with the young Seiki were quite hectic. everything Soichiro did was
entrepreneur’s growth
After putting a full day’s
during the most arduous
chart and refused to back
work in Art Shokai, Soichiro conditions. During the
would work at making
Second World War, when
him up when the business
The Founder of Honda Motors started booming. The time piston rings at night. the Ministry of Munitions
took control of Tokai
had now come for Soichiro
However, like any other
to think of a new place
order taken by Soichiro
to let his expertise and major venture, the first Seiki, Soichiro pushed
forward instead of buckling
Soichiro Honda, a man anything propelling it learnt everything he could. experience shine. was rejected almost down under the pressure.
who came from abject forward. So fascinated From gaining technical immediately, pushing him Developing a technique
poverty and no financial was he by the car’s super experience about the The birth of the back to the beginning for mass producing
support, proved to the rest powers, he chased it down product, to gaining an in Honda company of it all. wooden airplanes,
of the world that it truly to the end of the road to depth experience about Soichiro reinvented the
takes a dream to realise take a closer look at what the inner workings of a Undeterred, Soichiro Since the very first days way Japanese aircrafts
your passion. Without would be his inspiration for car, this apprenticeship started a brand new of the Honda company, flew and functioned.
the means and through the first ever Honda car. gave Soichiro the wings he company called Tokai Seiki This new invention was
sheer hard work, Soichiro needed to fly. Heavy Industry in the year the first step toward the
built his dream company At the age of 15 (in 1936. Despite being told creation of what Honda
from scratch and with 1922,) Soichiro’s love It took Soichiro six years by the lenders that they is today and after the
a focus on the future. for automobiles grew so to finish his training and wouldn’t back him, the war, Soichiro opened the
From building a cycle in much, he left home to by the year 1928, the young Honda still worked Honda Technical Research
a garage, to creating one apprentice at Art Shokai, young Honda had so much at the Art Shoika Company.
of the largest automobile an automobile repair knowledge, he could put The initial days of Tokai
stores in the world, shop in Tokyo. Dedicated even the most trained
Soichiro Honda’s story is and filled with a passion engineers to shame!
one of inspiration, dreams like never before, the Opening a new branch
and success stories! 15 year old Soichiro put of Art Shoika, Soichiro
his heart and soul into started working on
The Beginning learning everything about building everything from
the world of cars. At Art two wheelers to trucks.
Belonging to a very small Shokai, the young man Unfortunately, Soichiro’s
village in Japan called investors were not as
Komya, Soichiro had a very
difficult childhood. The
twentieth century had just
started and the first car
the world was exposed
to was the Ford cars. In
fact, even Soichiro’s love
for cars first started when
he saw a majestic Ford
car on the tiny streets of
his hometown. A young
Soichiro had difficulty
understanding how such
a powerful car could drive
down the road without

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