Toyota Logo and Its History
For all their success in the automobile industry, Toyota didn’t start out selling vehicles. At least the company that Toyota was a subsidiary of did not. Instead, the company, then known as Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, started out selling textiles and automatic looms. In the early 1930s, however, the Japanese government began urging Toyoda to expand into automobile production in order to supply the nation’s ongoing war with China. Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of the company’s founder, traveled to Europe to investigate the intricacies of automobile production, and in 1934 the company produced its first Type A engine. One year later, Toyoda was manufacturing its first vehicle, the Model AA passenger car.