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Honda video ...in house manufacture of wheel rims ???
« on: September 21, 2017, 06:57:24 AM »
If you watch this fascinating video (not 1960 as titled on YouTube it's probably mid to late 60's ..Bomber... S series cars etc.) at time 12:50 they show a wheel rim manufacture in-house but I always thought that their  rims were outsourced (DID etc) ? 
The only non-D.I.D. rims I have on any of my Honda's that's OEM is on my '68 CD125A which is not stamped DID its stamped  KAGA (I believe that some early Honda Benly's also had KAGA rims)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3VpwvIJ5Hg
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Re: Honda video ...in house manufacture of wheel rims ???
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2017, 07:33:32 AM »
Wow. Can you imagine Triumph/BSA etc trying to compete with that. And Edward Turner after his visit to Japan said "He could see no threat from the Japanese". To be honest it looks like a factory from the 21st century, except for all the poor drones sitting at benches doing repetitive work.
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Re: Honda video ...in house manufacture of wheel rims ???
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2017, 12:26:11 PM »
If you watch this fascinating video (not 1960 as titled on YouTube it's probably mid to late 60's ..Bomber... S series cars etc.) at time 12:50 they show a wheel rim manufacture in-house but I always thought that their  rims were outsourced (DID etc) ? 
The only non-D.I.D. rims I have on any of my Honda's that's OEM is on my '68 CD125A which is not stamped DID its stamped  KAGA (I believe that some early Honda Benly's also had KAGA rims)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3VpwvIJ5Hg

Rims in a DID factory, in a Honda promo film  ;)

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Re: Honda video ...in house manufacture of wheel rims ???
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2017, 03:39:51 PM »
Interesting video, I was trying to make out the NC machine manufacturers name plates, but very blurred. Did my apprenticeship with British Aerospace back in the 70's. The 'KAGA' branding on the early Honda wheels (as image, my CD175A sloper) Must have been an 'in house' thing, but still no idea what it means?
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