Jujiro matsuda biography of mahatma gandhi

Japanese industrialist and businessman (–)

Jujiro Matsuda (松田 重次郎, Matsuda Jūjirō, 8 August – 27 March ) was a Japanese inventor, machinist, industrialist and businessman whose company, Toyo Kogyo, led to the founding of the present-day multinational automaker Mazda Motor Corporation, in

Early life

The son of a fisherman, Matsuda was born in Hiroshima in He was apprenticed to a blacksmith in Osaka at the age of 14 and invented the "Matsuda-type pump" in He later took over management of the foundry at which he apprenticed and changed the name of the organization to "Matsuda Pump Partnership"; he was eventually forced out of the company, but launched an arms manufacturing company soon after: the eponymously-named Matsuda Works.

Matsuda would see his fledgling company's fortunes improve when it was commissioned as a supplier to the Tsar of Russia^[1] and as the manufacturer of the Type 99 rifle for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces.

Career

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