VINTAGE PHOTOS.

[Fernando Mendes]

Toyoda's car operations were placed in the hands of Kiichiro Toyoda, Sakichi Toyoda’s son; they started experimenting with two cylinder engines at first, but ended up copying the Chevrolet 65-horsepower straight-six, using the same chassis and gearbox with styling copied from the Chrysler Airflow. The first engine was produced in 1934 (the Type A), the first car and truck in 1935 (the Model A1 and G1, respectively), and its second car design in 1936 (the model AA). In 1937, Toyota Motor Company was split off.

From 1936 to 1943, only 1,7,57 cars were made – 1,404 sedans and 353 phaetons (model AB), but Toyoda found more success building trucks and busses. (Some of these early details are from http://www.geocities.com/toyotageek/) The Toyota KB, a 4x4 produced starting in 1941, was a two-ton truck similar to the prewar KC; it had a loading capacity of 1.5 tons and could run up to about 43 mph. The GB was based on the peacetime, 1.5 ton G1 truck, which in turn was based on the Model A1 cars. (From globalspec).

The first Toyoda truck was roughly a one-ton to one and a half-ton design, conventional in nature, using (after 1936) an overhead valve six-cylinder engine that appears to have been a clone of the Chevrolet engine of the time: indeed, a large number of parts were interchangeable, and Toyoda trucks captured in the war were serviced by the Allies with Chevrolet components. There was also a forty-horsepower four cylinder model, very similar to the six cylinder in design but rather underpowered for a truck with a full ton of capacity

[Fernando Mendes]

GMC generations.

[SwampBox]

I like that black GMC. Nice.

[Bill_Wolf]

The first Toyoda truck was roughly a one-ton to one and a half-ton design, conventional in nature, using (after 1936) an overhead valve six-cylinder engine that appears to have been a clone of the Chevrolet engine of the time: indeed, a large number of parts were interchangeable, and Toyoda trucks captured in the war were serviced by the Allies with Chevrolet components. There was also a forty-horsepower four cylinder model, very similar to the six cylinder in design but rather underpowered for a truck with a full ton of capacity

Are there any of these in collectors hands which represent a military version of the Imperial Japanese Army?

Bill

[Fernando Mendes]

Bill,I will ask the same question of your to a friend that wrote this article about Toyoda in PILOT-HOUSE DODGE site.

[Fernando Mendes]

Japanese tractor in WWII.

[Fernando Mendes]

Trayler Machine Shop.

[Fernando Mendes]

WWI truck.

[Fernando Mendes]

CCKW Assembling.

[Fernando Mendes]

BREN machine gun.

[Fernando Mendes]

CCKW 352 dual front wheel.

[Fernando Mendes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZg5kwqF ... re=related.TRACKS ON CCKW.

[Fernando Mendes]

ACKWX-1940

[Fernando Mendes]

Jeep WILLYS MB/GPW(1941-45) rack.

[Fernando Mendes]

DODGE WC57 with winch in Pacific theatre

[Fernando Mendes]