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guess the company (lemmy.world)

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[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 124 points 9 months ago

Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 107 points 9 months ago

Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 101 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed .... which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it's the image of a spinning propeller

Just don't ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 44 points 9 months ago

Nintendo started off making playing cards, that's why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 9 months ago

This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Just don't ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

Silent movies with Chaplin?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

I think it's also a reference to the bavarian flag.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

Yes .... and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works ... its actually 'Bayerische Motoren Werke'

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 35 points 9 months ago

Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago

German for Bavarian Motor Works

God damit! .... I was right all along ... just in the wrong language!

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Business, ofc

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

That’s awesome

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 9 months ago

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 9 months ago

The meme has it backwards .... worker should be saying .... 'I guess we produce motorcycles now'

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

"I guess we are getting history backwards now"

[-] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 70 points 9 months ago

No idea. Yamaha was doing pianos long before they were doing motorcycles, so it can't be them. I can't think of a company that started with motorcycles and then moved into pianos.

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They co-developed the V10 engine for Lexus LFA super car. Also they were the acoustic engineers for the engine. https://global.yamaha-motor.com/showroom/cp/collection/am_lfa/

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[-] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 32 points 9 months ago

Could be basically any japanese company 😅

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 9 months ago

Toyota made looms once.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago

Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card

[-] LeTak@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Don’t forget the yakuza money laundry made by Nintendo

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

If you dig back enough, literally every Japanese corpo roots go to some usury house or gambling den in Edo period. Or worse, to aristocratic family. Or both.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 6 points 9 months ago

You could write a story about a samurai and cowboy playing with Nintendo cards and drinking Coke and it would be historically accurate.

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Far as I know, they still make sewing machines; they just don't sell them in the States.

Lamborghini started out making tractors.

My parents had a Mitsubishi television about 15 years ago.

Coleco started life as the Connecticut Leather Company.

And it'll never fail to amuse me how Michelin tells you where to find the best restaurants on the planet.

[-] Aremel@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Michelin tells you where the best restaurants are so you can drive to them on their tires ;)

Guinness started the world record book to settle bar bets.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 4 points 9 months ago

Lamborghini started out making tractors

They still do.

[-] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

From looms to wrooms, why not!

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

And I think Singer made cars.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Just look at the Mr. Sparkle corporation: a joint venture of Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Is that a penis?

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Asking the important questions!

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Always

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Panasonic also makes bikes and pianos. Samsung does too. I think even Sony has a motorcycle concept so add them to the list.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 10 points 9 months ago

Samsung also builds ships

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I would say Samsung is like the Korean GE but tbh it's more like GE is a smaller American Samsung.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

And tanks and jet engines

[-] Manzas@lemdro.id 1 points 9 months ago

Samsung also builds tanks

[-] lietuva@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

also manufactures pharmaceuticals

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Yamaha

[-] Snazzy3846@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Yamaha has the beginner wind instrument market by the balls right now. Conn-Selmer became garbage over the last 15 years or so, and Jupiter has been known to be "the nicest dogshit in the business" for some time. Yamaha literally just had to maintain the same level of instrument quality while the former "great brands" became cheap stencil crap.