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SHOWA Corporation headquarters in Gyoda, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 as Showa Aircraft Precision Works. [3] In Japan's drive to develop its military capability in preparation for World War II, Showa supplied aircraft suspension and landing systems to various aircraft manufacturers.
Mikuni carburettor BS 36 SS from a Suzuki motorcycle Mikuni Corporation ( 株式会社ミクニ , Kabushiki gaisha Mikuni ) is a Japanese Automotive products manufacturing company. Their business activities is focused on carburetors, fuel injectors and other automobile and motorcycle related equipment.
The motorcycle division of Yamaha was spun off in 1955, being incorporated on 1 July 1955 in Japan, [7] and was headed by Genichi Kawakami. Yamaha's initial product was a 125 cc (7.6 cu in) two-stroke, single cylinder motorcycle, the YA-1, which was a copy of the German DKW RT 125.
Due to sheer serendipity, Dhanapala, whilst flicking through the UK broadsheets, stumbled upon an article featuring Charles Ware, owner of Britain's Morris Minor Company, and a relationship was forged between the two, whereby Morris Minor parts would be made in Sri Lanka by Dhanapala's team and sent to UK for Charles' for assembly.
Meguro motorcycles were built by Meguro Manufacturing Co motorcycle works (目黒製作所), founded by Nobuji Murata and a high-ranking naval officer, Takaji Suzuki, in 1937. One of the first Japanese motorcycle companies, it became a partner of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, and was eventually absorbed. Named after a district of Tokyo, Meguro ...
A standard two-wheel motor vehicle can be operated with an ordinary motorcycle license or a heavy motorcycle license. It is defined in the Road Traffic Act's Enforcement Regulations as a "two-wheeled vehicle (including one with a side car) other than a large special vehicle, heavy motorcycle and small special vehicle".
A small two-wheel motor vehicle (小型自動二輪車, kogata jidō nirinsha), sometimes referred to as a small motorcycle, is one of the vehicle categories in the Road Traffic Act of Japan. Such vehicles ( motorcycles ) have a displacement of more than 50 cc but no more than 125 cc, or their rated output exceeds 0.6 kW but is no more than 1 kW.
Sri Lanka became an aid recipient from Japan from the 1950s.Since then trade and investment linkages between the two countries developed and Japan was the largest aid donor to Sri Lanka until 2007, and is a major contributor to Sri Lanka's infrastructure development [5]