[Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry

[Oudesluys]

Datsun/Nissan started with the assembly of CKD kits from Austin, not the 
most advanced automotive design at the time. When they started to build 
cars on their own accord they were technically very similar to the 
Austin products. I believe that  engines and gearboxes from both makes 
were interchangable in the beginning.
However Toyota  produced cars of their own design in the thirties and 
there were others.
Do not forget that there were considerable engineering skils well before 
the war. They produced some very advanced and feared warplanes and such.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL

                                                  
Jack Feldman schreef:
> The statement "Don't forget it was the Japanese that borrowed the Brit's
> technology in the
> 60's.... and through reverse engineering ... All things are possible..."
> isn't exactly correct. Not much reverse engineering was necessary. Austin
> Motors helped the start of the Japanese industry.
>
> My very first car was and Austin A40 Somerset. I loved the car, and sold it
> when I returned to the US. I have a couple of books about Austin, and the
> books are clear that Austin shared technology with the Japanese.
>
> Who would have thought they would be a threat.
>
> Jack
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