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guess the company (lemmy.world)

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[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 124 points 10 months ago

Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 107 points 10 months ago

Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 101 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Silent movies with Chaplin?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

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

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

Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 months ago

German for Bavarian Motor Works

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

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Business, ofc

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

That’s awesome

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 10 months ago

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 10 months ago

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

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

"I guess we are getting history backwards now"

[-] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 70 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

Could be basically any japanese company 😅

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 10 months ago

Toyota made looms once.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card

[-] LeTak@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Don’t forget the yakuza money laundry made by Nintendo

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

Lamborghini started out making tractors

They still do.

[-] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

From looms to wrooms, why not!

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

And I think Singer made cars.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 8 points 10 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 10 months ago

Is that a penis?

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Asking the important questions!

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Always

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 13 points 10 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 10 months ago

Samsung also builds ships

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 9 points 10 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 10 months ago

And tanks and jet engines

[-] Manzas@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago

Samsung also builds tanks

[-] lietuva@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

also manufactures pharmaceuticals

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Yamaha

[-] Snazzy3846@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 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.