...or perhaps not:
From the 84 Miyata catalog
http://www-hsc.usc.edu/
From the Maruishi page (plus more text) "In 1884 Maruishi imported bicycles for the first time into Japan and became the pioneer of bicycles. MARUISHI developed the original complete line of bicycles."
(perhaps the symantics are akin to who discovered the Internet !)
Any thoughts on my question ??
Rich Pinder Van Nuys, CA
Rich Pinder wrote:
> Thx for the comments so far.
> (perhaps a bit of the ol 'false advertising' in motion here, eh ?)
>
> I've scanned the front and rear covers of the catalog, plus my two
> favorite pages .... if you're interested to take a peek. File is
> about 1.8mb
>
> http://www-hsc.usc.edu/
>
> Rich Pinder
> Van Nuys, CA
>
>> "Japans oldest and leading manufacurer of bicycles.... annual
>> capacity of 1,000,000..... In 1884 Maruishi imported bicycles for
>> the first time into Japan ....." It also states that in the 70's they
>> had a "wholly owned subsidiary in the United States"
>> Does anyone recall who this subsidiary was (is) ??