Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Meguro motorcycles were made by Meguro Manufacturing Co motorcycle works (目黒製作所), and was founded by Hobuji Murato and a high-ranking naval officer Takaji Suzuki in 1937. It is one of the oldest Japanese motorcycle companies and it became a partner of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. Named after a district of Tokyo, it had its roots in Murato Iron Works, which was established in 1924, and had once developed a copy of a Harley-Davidson V-twin as an earlier company called Meguro Seisakusho, which was established to design and build gearboxes for the nascent Japanese motorcycle industry, with Abe Industries, which used to produce its own motorcycle and had combined with Meguro in 1931.Originally a prestige brand which supplied the Japanese government with military and police motorcycles and raced alongside Honda, Meguro (メグロ) became bankrupt after launching a range of lightweight motorcycles which sold poorly, and experiencing a yearlong labor strike. The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. rates the Meguro Z97 model introduced in 1937 as one of their 240 Landmarks of Japanese Automotive Technology."@en }
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- Meguro_motorcycles abstract "Meguro motorcycles were made by Meguro Manufacturing Co motorcycle works (目黒製作所), and was founded by Hobuji Murato and a high-ranking naval officer Takaji Suzuki in 1937. It is one of the oldest Japanese motorcycle companies and it became a partner of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. Named after a district of Tokyo, it had its roots in Murato Iron Works, which was established in 1924, and had once developed a copy of a Harley-Davidson V-twin as an earlier company called Meguro Seisakusho, which was established to design and build gearboxes for the nascent Japanese motorcycle industry, with Abe Industries, which used to produce its own motorcycle and had combined with Meguro in 1931.Originally a prestige brand which supplied the Japanese government with military and police motorcycles and raced alongside Honda, Meguro (メグロ) became bankrupt after launching a range of lightweight motorcycles which sold poorly, and experiencing a yearlong labor strike. The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. rates the Meguro Z97 model introduced in 1937 as one of their 240 Landmarks of Japanese Automotive Technology.".
- Q2351724 abstract "Meguro motorcycles were made by Meguro Manufacturing Co motorcycle works (目黒製作所), and was founded by Hobuji Murato and a high-ranking naval officer Takaji Suzuki in 1937. It is one of the oldest Japanese motorcycle companies and it became a partner of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. Named after a district of Tokyo, it had its roots in Murato Iron Works, which was established in 1924, and had once developed a copy of a Harley-Davidson V-twin as an earlier company called Meguro Seisakusho, which was established to design and build gearboxes for the nascent Japanese motorcycle industry, with Abe Industries, which used to produce its own motorcycle and had combined with Meguro in 1931.Originally a prestige brand which supplied the Japanese government with military and police motorcycles and raced alongside Honda, Meguro (メグロ) became bankrupt after launching a range of lightweight motorcycles which sold poorly, and experiencing a yearlong labor strike. The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. rates the Meguro Z97 model introduced in 1937 as one of their 240 Landmarks of Japanese Automotive Technology.".