Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles and outboard motors, based in Hamamatsu. It was founded by Michio Suzuki as Suzuki Loom Works, making looms for the local silk-weaving industry. It turned to motor vehicles in the 1930s and began producing motorcycles in the early 1950s with a motorized bicycle, followed by its first car, the Suzulight, in 1955. The company became a leader in kei cars, the small vehicles favored in Japan, and in small cars such as the Swift and the Jimny. Its partnership with Maruti in India, begun in the 1980s, produced the Maruti 800, which transformed the Indian car market.
Before and after
- 1909Fritz Haber synthesises ammonia from air
- 1909Mohorovicic discovers the boundary between the crust and the mantle
- 1909Paul Ehrlich discovers Salvarsan, the first modern chemotherapy
- 2 January 1909Origins of Elfstedentocht
- 10 February 1909Founding of Suzuki Motor Corporation
- 22 April 1909Birth of Rita Levi-Montalcini
- 15 June 1909Founding of International Cricket Council
- 30 August 1909Charles Walcott discovers the Burgess Shale
- 7 September 1909Founding of Real Sociedad
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The era
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