SUZUKI

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SUZUKI

• From Speed Looms To Speed Machines

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The Beginning

• In 1909 Michio Suzuki founded the Suzuki Loom
  Company in the small seacoast village of
  Hamamatsu, Japan
• They made motorized speed looms
• They made good money off these speed looms since
  Japan has such a large silk industry, with all
  there kimonos and such

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Time For A Change

• Although the money was good Mr. Suzuki decided he
  needed to diversify his products so he looked
  into other options
• They decided that a small car would fit the
  consumer demand and so began the Suzuki car
  project in 1937
• These first Suzuki motor vehicles were powered by
  a then-innovative, liquid-cooled, four-stroke,
  four-cylinder engine. It featured a cast aluminum
  crankcase and gearbox and generated 13 horsepower
  from a displacement of less than 800cc.

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Back To Looming

• With World War II on setting, production was
  halted
• the government declared civilian passenger cars a
  "non-essential commodity."
• After the war Suzuki went back to the looming
  business
• The reason for this was mostly due to the
  government approving trade of cotton with America
  witch boosted their sales an excruciatingly
  humongous amount
• But the joy was short-lived as the cotton market
  collapsed in 1951.

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Motors a plenty

• Faced with this colossal challenge, Suzuki's
  thoughts went back to motor vehicles
• They made engines called clip ons that could be
  easily put on a bicycle
• The first one of these was put on a bike and they
  named it the power free
• Designed to be inexpensive and simple to build
  and maintain, the 1952 Power Free featured a 36cc
  two-stroke engine. An unprecedented feature was
  the double-sprocket gear system, enabling the
  rider to either pedal with the engine assisting,
  pedal without engine assist, or simply disconnect
  the pedals and run on engine power alone
• Once it was patented They got authorization to
  continue production
• And so was born Suzuki Motor Corporation

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Suzuki Today

• Today Suzuki has an extensive variety of cars,
  motorcycles, and boats
• For example they have the worlds fastest street
  legal motorcycle, the Suzuki Hayabusa
• Some of their cars are the aerio sx, the XL-7,
  and the Forenza
• They also make a variety of powerful boat engines
• So all and all Suzuki is a company that went from
  big looming to big automotive, in fact they are
  one of the big four motorcycle companies

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