1867 | Sakichi Toyoda First-born of a carpenter in Yamaguchi |
1871 | Compulsory education |
1878 | Apprenticeship in his father's profession |
1890 | Sakichi visited industrial exhibition in Tokyo |
1890 | Improved version of the usual looms |
1891 | Initial trials of start-ups fail in Tokyo |
1894 | Sakichi operates with his uncle new company |
1894 | Kiichiro Toyoda born, son of Asako and Sakichi Toyoda |
1895 | Patent of machine for yarn |
1895 | Successful opening of a store in Nagoya (close, major city) |
1896 | Debt by criminal partner |
1897 | Mechanical wooden loom |
1898 | Joint ventures with strong partner Mitsui |
1900 | Renewed attempts to loom in competition with the West |
1902 | First division of Mitsui |
1904 | Kiichiro finished secondary school with moderate success |
1905 | Semi-automatic loom from steel |
1906 | Sales of looms can be seen in well |
1906 | Continued cooperation with Mitsui, Toyoda Loom Works founded |
1907 | Recession in Japan |
1910 | Second division of Mitsui |
1910 | First travel to US, awakened interest in car production |
1913 | Weaving mill supplemented by spinning company |
1914 | First World War boosts Japan's economy |
1920 | Second company in Shanghai |
1924 | Invention of the fully automatic loom (Sakichi and Kiichiro) |
1929 | Sale of patent rights to GB |
1930 | First attempts by Kiichiro Toyoda with copies an internal combustion engine |
1933 | Automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works |
1934 | Six cylinder is running on the test bench |
1935 | Prototype passenger car A1, prototype truck G1 |
1936 | Own car manufacturing plant, law concerning the manufacture of motor vehicles, prototypes, AA, AB, and GA |
1937 | First brand, foundation as 'Toyota Motor Company' stock company |
1938 | New, much larger factory in Koromo |
1950 | Company got into financial difficulties |
1951 | Toyota Motor Sales Co. |
1955 | Toyopet Crown |
1957 | Toyopet Master, Crown Deluxe |
1957 | Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. |
1959 | Motomachi Plant began with the first passenger car production in Japan (Asia) |
1967 | Partnership with Daihatsu Motor Co. |
1982 | Toyota Motor Corporation |
1984 | Joint venture with General Motors |
1988 | Toyota Motor Manufacturing, USA, Inc. began production |
1989 | Foundation of Lexus |