Museum of the plant "Mazda".

"Mazda» (Mazda Motor Corporation, in 1927-1984 Toyo Kogyo Company), the Japanese car company, specializing in the production of trucks, buses, vans and cars. Included in the financial-industrial group "Sumitomo". The headquarters is located in Hiroshima.

Founded in 1920 in Hiroshima, Japan, Mr. Matsuda Jujiro (Jujiro Matsuda, 1875-1952), on the basis of the bankrupt company Hiroshima processing and manufacture of articles of cork Abemaki. After gaining the rights to the company, it is renamed Toyo Cork Kogyo, and about a year later became its president Matsuda.
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The tour consists of two parts: the factory museum, which shows the main stages of development and key model of the company, and smotorovaya gallery on the assembly line (Assembly Line U1). Of course, I expected to see this yaposkih robots of the future, but okazalost prosaic: many operations on the final assembly are done manually. In the part of the assembly line, which showed us there was only one robot. Most robotised (body welding and painting) Mazda does not show.



Hiroshima is the headquarters of the corporation "Mazda" and one of the largest factories of the company.
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The tour begins in the lobby of an office building: it exhibited a novelty company.
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Mazda Luce 1969.
The flagship model of the company produced until 1991 (with modifications, of course).
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The museum is located at the plant, next to one of the shops, which will have to get to by bus.
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History of Mazda began in 1931
(Company, however, has existed since 1910, but was engaged in production of articles of cork, and called otherwise).
The first successful model was the tricycle Mazda-Go.
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Tricycle Type-GB (1950)
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In 1960 the company launched its first passenger car - Mazda R360 Coupe.
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Mazda Carol 600 (1962 г.). The museum millionth car, off the assembly line 9 March 1963.
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By the end of the 60 significantly expands the range of Mazda, Mazda B360 releasing pickup and minivan Mazda Bongo,
as well as the production of starting families Familia and Luce.
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In 1967, Mazda released his first car with a rotary-piston engine - Mazda Cosmo Sport.
From 1967 to 1972, issued in 1519 the first generation of cars and they are all assembled by hand.
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Mazda RX-3 Savanna (1971). In 1972 this car won the race Japanese Grand Prix
and gave his rival Nissan GT-R to complete a series of 50 consecutive victories.
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Mazda MX-5 (1989).
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The museum has a large collection of models. Probably everyone who has ever produced Mazda.
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Mazda RX-7 SA / FB (1979).
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The exposition ends with Mazda RX-7, the third generation (1992).
Standing behind Autozam AZ-1 produced Suzuki and Mazda it only sold.
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A separate room is devoted to the history of engines Mazda.
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Pride Mazda - rotary-piston engine.
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Mazda 787B. The first and still the only car with a rotary-piston engine,
win the race "24 Hours of Le Mans" (1991).
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A separate exhibition is devoted to the development of new models on the example of Mazda RX-8.
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It all starts with sketches and mock-ups.
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In addition to scale models and full-size mock-ups do.
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Equally important is the interior of the car of the future. Here, too, a lot is checked for full-size mock-ups.
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Actually this is a modern car. Everything else decor and amenities.
Engine and chassis - the basis on which the whole series models are going, sometimes for decades.
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The walls are decorated Mazda RX-7, to understand just screw up - thousands of parts.
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The process of making your own car is presented in the most spectacular stages: stamping and painting.
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Before release new model goes through a series of tests, including crash tests.
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Tour ends in a room dedicated to environmental initiatives Mazda -
models with engines on hydrogen fuel, recyclable materials and stuff like that.
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It also exhibited two concept.
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Mazda Kiyora (2008) with osoboekonomichnym engine
(By the way, its mass production scheduled for 2011), and an automatic transmission of a new generation.
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And Mazda Taiki - a concept that shows one of the possible directions of development of cars Mazda.
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Mazda factory occupies a vast territory with its own bridges and quays
(It is denoted by a yellow dotted line).
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And behind the fence prowl competitors
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