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Nissan Engine Company Ltd, usually shortened to Nissan, is a Japanese international automobile manufacturer headquartered with Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan.Since 1999, Nissan has been the main Renault-Nissan Alliance, a partnership between Nissan along with French automaker Renault. As of 2013, Renault holds a 43. 4% voting stake throughout Nissan, while Nissan holds a 15% non-voting stake within Renault. Carlos Ghosn serves since CEO of both corporations.A Nissan Dealership inside Patiala, IndiaNissan Motor sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands using in-house performance tuning solutions labelled Nismo.Nissan was the sixth largest automaker on this planet behind Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Ford in 2013. Taken together, the Renault-Nissan Alliance could be the world’s fourth largest automaker. Nissan is the major Japanese brand in The far east, Russia and Mexico.Masujiro Hashimoto founded the actual Kwaishinsha Motor Car Works in 1911. In 1914, the company produced it's first car, called DAT.

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The newest car's name was an acronym in the company's investors' surnames:Kenjiro Den (田健次郎 Living area Kenjirō?)Rokuro Aoyama (青山禄郎 Aoyama Rokurō?)Meitaro Takeuchi (竹内明太郎 Takeuchi Meitarō?)It was renamed in order to Kwaishinsha Motorcar Co., Ltd. in 1918, and again to DAT Jidosha & Company., Ltd. (DAT Motorcar Corp.) in 1925. DAT Motors built trucks as well as the DAT and Datsun voyager cars. The vast majority connected with its output were pickups, due to an pretty much non- existent consumer current market for passenger cars at that time. Beginning in 1918, the first DAT trucks were produced to the military market. At the same period, Jitsuyo Jidosha Co., Ltd. produced small trucks using parts, and materials imported from the united states.In 1926 the Tokyo-based DAT Motors merged while using Osaka-based Jitsuyo Jidosha Corp., Ltd. (実用自動車製造株式会社 Jitsuyō Jidōsha Seizō Kabushiki-Gaisha?) a. k. a. Jitsuyo Jidosha Seizo (established 1919 to be a Kubota subsidiary) for being DAT Jidosha Seizo Co., Ltd Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (ダット自動車製造株式会社 DAT Jidōsha Seizō Kabushiki-Gaisha?) in Osaka right up until 1932. From 1923 to 1925, the company produced light vehicles under the name regarding Lila.In 1931, DAT came out having a new smaller car, the first "Datson", meaning "Son of DAT". Later in 1933 after Nissan took control of DAT Motors, the last syllable of Datson was changed to help "sun", because "son" also implies "loss" (損) inside Japanese, hence the name "Datsun" (ダットサン Dattosan?).In 1933, the company name has been Nipponized to Jidosha-Seizo Corp., Ltd. (自動車製造株式会社 Jidōsha Seizō Kabushiki-Gaisha?, "Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. ") and ended up being moved to Yokohama.

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Nissan name first utilized in 1930sIn 1928, Yoshisuke Aikawa founded the holding company Nihon Sangyo (日本産業 Asia Industries or Nihon Sectors). The name 'Nissan' originated during the 1930s as an abbreviation[14] applied to the Tokyo stock marketplace for Nihon Sangyo. This company was the actual famous Nissan "Zaibatsu" which included Tobata Casting and Hitachi. At this time Nissan governed foundries and auto pieces businesses, but Aikawa did not really enter automobile manufacturing until eventually 1933.The zaibatsu eventually grew to add in 74 firms, and became the fourth-largest inside Japan during World Warfare II.In 1931, DAT Jidosha Seizo became affiliated with Tobata Casting, and was merged in Tobata Casting in 1933. As Tobata Casting had been a Nissan company, this was the beginning of Nissan's automobile manufacturing.

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Nissan Electric motor founded in 1934In 1934, Aikawa separated the extended automobile parts division involving Tobata Casting and incorporated it like a new subsidiary, which he named Nissan Powerplant Co., Ltd. (日産自動車 Nissan Jidōsha?). The shareholders of the brand new company however were not thinking about the prospects of the automobile in Japan, so Aikawa bought out all the Tobata Casting shareholders (making use of capital from Nihon Sectors) in June 1934. At this time, Nissan Motor effectively grew to be owned by Nihon Sangyo as well as Hitachi.In 1935, construction of its Yokohama plant was completed. 44 Datsuns were delivered to Asia, Central and South The united states. In 1935, the first car manufactured by a built-in assembly system rolled journey line at the Yokohama plant. Nissan built trucks, airplanes, and engines for japan military. In 1937, the company's main plant was moved on the occupied Manchuria, and named Manchuria Weighty Industries Developing Co.In 1940, first knockdown kits had been shipped to Dowa Jidosha Kogyo (Dowa Auto), one of MHID’s corporations, for assembly. In 1944, the head office ended up being moved to Nihonbashi, Tokyo, and the company identify was changed to Nissan Heavy Industries, Ltd., which the company held through 1949.