"Prince Motors" redirects here. Not to be confused with Prince Motors (Taiwan).
Prince Motors, Ltd.[1]
Native name
プリンス自動車工業株式会社
Romanized name
Prince Jidōsha Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha
Company type
Public
Industry
Automotive industry
Aerospace industry[2]
Power loom[2]
Founded
June 30, 1947; 76 years ago (1947-06-30) (Foundation of the Tokyo Electric Car Company)[3]
Defunct
August 1, 1966 (1966-08-01)
Fate
Merged into Nissan
Successor
Nissan
Headquarters
Suginami, Tokyo
,
Japan
Key people
Shojiro Ishibashi
Ryoichi Nakagawa
Jiro Tanaka
Shinichiro Sakurai
Products
Automobile
Pencil Rocket (collaboration with Hideo Itokawa and Tokyo University)
Power loom
Subsidiaries
Rhythm Friend Manufacturing (current THK Rhythm)
The Prince Motor Company (Japanese: プリンス自動車工業株式会社) was an automobile marque from Japan which eventually merged into Nissan in 1966. It began as the Tachikawa Aircraft Company, a manufacturer of various airplanes for the Japanese Army in World War II, e.g., the Ki-36, Ki-55 and Ki-74. Tachikawa Aircraft Company was dissolved after the war and the company took the name Fuji Precision Industries. It diversified into automobiles, producing an electric car, the Tama, in 1946, named for the region the company originated in, Tama, using the Ohta series PC/PD platform. The company changed its name to Prince in 1952 to honor Akihito's formal investiture as Crown Prince of the nation. In 1954 they changed their name back to Fuji Precision Industries, and in 1961 changed the name back again to Prince Motor Company. In 1966, they became part of Nissan, while the Prince organization remained in existence inside Nissan, as Nissan Prince Store in Japan until Nissan consolidated the Prince dealership network into "Nissan Blue Stage" in 1999.
^KATSURAGI, Yoji "The Beam of the Light of the Prince Motor Company" Grand Prix Book Publishing Co., Ltd., October 22, 2003 (Japanese) ISBN 4-87687-251-1
^ abA short history of the Prince Motor Co., Ltd. (nissan-global.com)
^TOMA, Setsuo "Prince - A Japanese Car Maker With A Proud Legacy" Miki Press Inc., October 25, 2008 (Japanese) ISBN 978-4-89522-518-2
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