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The development of general purpose engines was immediately abandoned but two years later they were revived, this time under the Honda brand name.
The second new product was a scooter. Development on this also started in spring 1952, just when there was a boom in the popularity of scooters as a form of two-wheeled transport that anybody could use even when wearing a suit and tie. To make it more salable than previous bikes, the company thought up all sorts of ideas of the kind that could only come from Honda.
In autumn, Honda also started development of a new type of motorized bicycle. In those days licenses were only granted to motorized bicycles with engines up to 60 cc in the case of 2-stroke machines or 90 cc in the case of 4-stroke machines. The company used its experience with the Dream to develop a four- stroke bike. This time, of course, it did not use an auxiliary engine made for use with a bicycle but decided instead to launch a model in which frame and engine were conceived as an integrated whole.
After that, it was just a matter of waiting for the long-expected machine tools to arrive. |
