Honda is a Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles, automobiles and power equipment. It was founded in Hamamatsu by Soichiro Honda, an engineer, in the years after the Second World War, with an early product being a small motor attached to a bicycle. The company grew into the world's largest maker of motorcycles, helped by the success of the Super Cub, and began producing cars in the 1960s. Its Civic and Accord models became popular in many countries, and Honda also developed outboard engines, generators and aircraft. The firm has long taken part in motor racing, in both motorcycle and Formula One competitions, and it has headquarters in Tokyo.
Before and after
- 1946Founding of U.C. Sampdoria
- 1946First edition of Cannes Film Festival
- from 1946 to 1958French Fourth Republic
- 1946Establishment of Nairobi National Park
- 1946Founding of Honda
- 5 January 1946Birth of Diane Keaton
- 20 January 1946Birth of David Lynch
- 5 February 1946Birth of Charlotte Rampling
- 15 February 1946ENIAC
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The era
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