1929年,奥德罕姆的普拉特兄弟邀请丰田喜一郎赴英国商谈获准在英制造纺织机事宜。在英期间,年轻的喜一郎被他看到的汽车迷住了。他返回日本后用普拉特付给他的8.35万英镑在他父亲丰田佐吉的自动织机工厂投资创建了一个汽车车间。第一次投资取得了惊人的成果。第一辆轿车于 In 1929, the Pratt brothers in Oldham invited Kiichiro Toyoda to visit Britain for permission to manufacture textile machines in the United Kingdom. During the British life, the young Kiichiro was mesmerized by the car he saw. When he returned to Japan, he paid 8.35 million pounds with Prattas to invest in a car workshop at his father’s auto-looms factory in Toyota’s Sakichi. The first investment has achieved amazing results. The first car at