Topic: This is Honda 1962 film

[CycleRanger]

A really excellent Honda factory film from 1962.
It really shows how Honda was ready to explode into the American market.

[rocket johnny]

great film !   thanx for sharing !

[BenelliSEI]

Loved it! Thanks.

[Stev-o]

Hey Ranger...yes, that was excellent. 

It's amazing how much of an investment Honda put out there to ramp up production of all the motorcycles they exported at such a reasonable price [an S90 was $495]

PS. Can you find a film that shows assembly of the CB750?! ha

[jgger]

Even though it was brief,  I liked seeing the CL 72's in action. Thanks for posting this.

[newday777]

Hey Ranger...yes, that was excellent. 

PS. Can you find a film that shows assembly of the CB750?! ha

I agree that was good.
I'm hoping that there is one on the 750 also

[CycleRanger]

Hey Ranger...yes, that was excellent. 

It's amazing how much of an investment Honda put out there to ramp up production of all the motorcycles they exported at such a reasonable price [an S90 was $495]

PS. Can you find a film that shows assembly of the CB750?! ha

I can't take credit for finding this, it was posted over at the Vintage Honda Twins forum. https://www.vintagehondatwins.com/
I think this is might be an "official" Honda YT channel.
Certainly Honda made similar films later, especially of the ground-breaking CB750.
Hopefully they will post them some day.

[carnivorous chicken]

killer flick and trippy space-age soundtrack!

[jlh3rd]

yep
a little bit of "The Time Machine"...."The Forbidden Planet"....mixed in?
with a young John Houseman as narrator maybe?

[britman]

I really enjoyed that.  Amazing what that company has accomplished through the years.  It is funny, I look at the welds on the Dream I am restoring, most of them look like Ray Charles did them with his feet, but after 55+ years they are as strong as ever......

[HondaMan]

Thanks for sharing this film! It's nostalgic for me beyond the bikes and parts pictured: my career in Controls and Automation from 1988 onward was in building the machines that replaced the kind that are shown in the film. The old ones required massive amounts of technical maintenance on a frequent (usually every weekend) basis, so the 'push' was to replace the functions of the older sequencer-type machinery with intelligent PLC- and computer-controlled versions that could measure the wear of the tooling in real time to continue production longer without the maintenance, while holding the quality. Honda was one of the first in Japan to 'go big' with the NC (Numeric Control) machines like those seen in so many factory scenes, and their quality greatly outpaced their competitors (Yamaha and Suzuki, mostly) because of them. The switch to PLC (Programmable LogicControl) and CNC (Comupterized Numeric Control) started for Honda in the late 1980s, replacing almost all of the giant machines seen in this film with even bigger ones that made multiples of the parts shown, at once. In contrast, the 750 was mostly hand-built until the midyear model 750K1 (when the so-called 'New Factory" appeared) from sand molds for cast parts and hand-jigged frames. By the advent of the K4 the 750 was being made much like the bikes shown in this excellent film, but in all-new machinery.

It's no wonder the replacement parts made on the same machines always fit!

[Tracksnblades1]

Great post..

Wonder what size “Go Pro” they were sporting on the test track…😁

[CycleRanger]

Thanks for sharing this film! It's nostalgic for me beyond the bikes and parts pictured: my career in Controls and Automation from 1988 onward was in building the machines that replaced the kind that are shown in the film. The old ones required massive amounts of technical maintenance on a frequent (usually every weekend) basis, so the 'push' was to replace the functions of the older sequencer-type machinery with intelligent PLC- and computer-controlled versions that could measure the wear of the tooling in real time to continue production longer without the maintenance, while holding the quality. Honda was one of the first in Japan to 'go big' with the NC (Numeric Control) machines like those seen in so many factory scenes, and their quality greatly outpaced their competitors (Yamaha and Suzuki, mostly) because of them. The switch to PLC (Programmable LogicControl) and CNC (Comupterized Numeric Control) started for Honda in the late 1980s, replacing almost all of the giant machines seen in this film with even bigger ones that made multiples of the parts shown, at once. In contrast, the 750 was mostly hand-built until the midyear model 750K1 (when the so-called 'New Factory" appeared) from sand molds for cast parts and hand-jigged frames. By the advent of the K4 the 750 was being made much like the bikes shown in this excellent film, but in all-new machinery.

It's no wonder the replacement parts made on the same machines always fit!

You can also see why when Honda started to design and build bigger bikes the Brits had no chance with their 30 year-old designs and tooling.

[HondaMan]

Thanks for sharing this film! It's nostalgic for me beyond the bikes and parts pictured: my career in Controls and Automation from 1988 onward was in building the machines that replaced the kind that are shown in the film. The old ones required massive amounts of technical maintenance on a frequent (usually every weekend) basis, so the 'push' was to replace the functions of the older sequencer-type machinery with intelligent PLC- and computer-controlled versions that could measure the wear of the tooling in real time to continue production longer without the maintenance, while holding the quality. Honda was one of the first in Japan to 'go big' with the NC (Numeric Control) machines like those seen in so many factory scenes, and their quality greatly outpaced their competitors (Yamaha and Suzuki, mostly) because of them. The switch to PLC (Programmable LogicControl) and CNC (Comupterized Numeric Control) started for Honda in the late 1980s, replacing almost all of the giant machines seen in this film with even bigger ones that made multiples of the parts shown, at once. In contrast, the 750 was mostly hand-built until the midyear model 750K1 (when the so-called 'New Factory" appeared) from sand molds for cast parts and hand-jigged frames. By the advent of the K4 the 750 was being made much like the bikes shown in this excellent film, but in all-new machinery.

It's no wonder the replacement parts made on the same machines always fit!

You can also see why when Honda started to design and build bigger bikes the Brits had no chance with their 30 year-old designs and tooling.

Boy, that's for sure! The Brits were overly proud of their complex construction methods (many from WWII) and wouldn't distance themselves from them, mostly from pride. But, as the old caveat says: 'Pride goeth before the fall.'

[seanbarney41]

Surprisingly enjoyable due to the excellent photography and music!