[AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???

[charliehill]

Well I've already had mine for today Mattias but luckily the ground was warm 
enough that it melted as soon as it fell.

charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mattias Kessén" <davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] way-WAY off topic Toyota vs. Toyoda???


> According to todays Dagens Industri (Daily Industry, the Swedish Wall 
> Street
> Journal) Toyoda Motor Company was founded in 1933 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a
> part of his fathers company that made automatic looms. The first car was
> made in 1935. The company becomes independent in 1937 and changes it's 
> name
> to Toyota Motor because it's easier to pronounce and (as Charlie said) can
> be written with eight brush strokes in Japanese which is considered lucky.
>
> Mattias who hasn't had any snow today, yet.
>
> P.S. roofs are falling in everywhere around here and we are shoveling and
> not only modern flat roofs but even roofs that have survived 150 years,
> needless to say no one have lived long enough to see this much snow before
> in this area. And it's the coldest winter since WWII. Al Gore is the 
> biggest
> swindler ever. At least we are going north this weekend so we will only 
> have
> to endure normal amounts of snow, where snow is normal. D.S.
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