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| When Koichi Yano, then a 4th year student at Fukuoka Industrial College, was asked by the industrialist Yoshitaro Murakami to repair his French-built De Dion-Bouton automobile, it set him down the road of researching and designing his own vehicle. Yano took the rear-engine rear-wheel drive De Dion-Bouton and converted into a front-engine rear-wheel drive car, before drawing up blueprints based on a small British-made car (possibly an Austin Baby). Borrowing manufacturing facilities from Murakami's operations, Yano succeeded in building his own car in 1916 using De Dion-Bouton parts. The car featured a two-cylinder water-cooled engine, built under the instruction of Professor Iwaoka at Kyushu University, with manufacturing support from the university's machine shop. It also had a carburetor manufactured by Zenith in France, a Bosch Magneto ignition device as the spark plug, and wheels and tires originally designed for use with motorbikes. The car was used for approximately 2 years by the people who had backed its construction, and it even obtained a government license. Currently stored by Yano Special Vehicle Co., Ltd., test drives of the Arrow have been aired by Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK. |
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| Storage location | : | YANO SPECIAL VEHICLE CO., LTD. (1540-3, Kaminofu, Shingu-machi, Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka-ken 811-0117) | |
| Year manufactured | : | 1916 | |
| Manufacturer | : | Koichi Yano | |
| Classification | : | Prototype/designs/literature | |
| Current status | : | In storage: not open to the public | |
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| Vehicle name | : | Arrow |  |
| Company name | : | Yano Special Vehicle Co., Ltd. | |
| Year manufactured | : | 1916 | |
| Designed by | : | Koichi Yano | |
| Collaboration | : | Yoshitaro Murakami | |
| Vehicle type/usage | : | Small car | |
| Location of actual vehicle/replica | : | Yano Special Vehicle Co., Ltd. |
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| Style | : | Phaeton | |
| Number of doors | : | 2 | |
| Passenger capacity | : | 4 | |
| Vehicle weight | : | 320 kg |
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| Structure | : | Steel and aluminum sheets | |
| Bumpers | : | None | |
| Step | : | Provided | |
| Overall length | : | 2590 mm | |
| Overall width | : | 1170 mm | |
| Overall height | : | 1525 mm | |
| Tire size | : | 3.00-25 in 700-80 (Goodrich) | |
| Features | : | Handmade aluminum sheet body |
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| Frame | : | Steel sheets, ladder type | |
| Front axle | : | Rigid, lateral 1/2 leaf | |
| Rear axle | : | Rigid, lateral 1/2 leaf | |
| Wheelbase | : | 1830 mm | |
| Front tread x rear tread | : | Both 1000 mm | |
| Vehicle height adjustment | : | None | |
| Steering | : | Round steering wheel | |
| Dampers | : | None | |
| Stabilizer | : | None | |
| Driving stability devices | : | None | |
| Features | : | Emulates the Ford Model T |
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| Cooling/cylinder arrangement | : | Water-cooled/inline 2-cylinder | |
| Valve train | : | SV | |
| Carburetor | : | Zenith | |
| Bore x stroke | : | 98.9×88.9 mm | |
| Displacement | : | 1054 cc | |
| Ignition system | : | Bosch magneto | |
| Max. power/r.p.m. | : | 10/12 hp/1800 rpm | |
| Exhaust emissions treatment | : | Noise reduction muffler only | |
| Supercharger | : | None | |
| Variable ignition system | : | Manual ignition timing | |
| Fetures | : | Imported carburetors, spark plugs, tires |
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| Transmission | : | MT3 | |
| Drive system | : | FR |
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| Reference materials | : | Nigensha: Car Graphic, Jul. 1972; Journal of Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Vol. 21, No. 11, 1967 | |
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