Month: June 2020

Toyota production by Beizhi. Brochure  collection mr. Bai Guang.

When Japan invaded China it needed the shortest supply lines, and it was for that reason that the Japanese regime encouraged truck assembly at several places in China. These factories assembled Japanese trucks for military and also for civilian use.

So after describing the American influenced Minsheng (Zhongshan) and the assembly of the German  Mercedes, I will write here about the third country involved in the 1930s-1940s Chinese truck production.

Continue reading “Japanese trucks made in China before and during the Second Chinese-Japanese war.”

Two side windows or three side windows? Beijing Limousine, 1958.

This is a difficult subject. With my friend Robert Jablonski I have a heavy discussion about the existence of a  long wheelbase version of the 1958 Beijing Limousine (first generation).

I have written before about this car.

Continue reading “The long wheelbase Beijing limousine”