Meguro motorcycles
Native name | 目黒製作所 |
|---|---|
Romanized name | Meguro Seisakusho |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | Meguro, Tokyo, Japan August 1924 |
| Founder | Nobuji Murata Takatsugu Suzuki |
| Defunct | October 1964 |
| Fate | Merged into Kawasaki Heavy Industries |
Area served | Japan |
| Products | Motorcycles, gearboxes |
Meguro (Japanese: メグロ) is a brand of motorcycles originally built by Meguro Manufacturing (目黒製作所, Meguro Seisakusho) before the company was absorbed into Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Once a prestige brand, supplying the Japanese government with military and police motorcycles and racing alongside Honda, Meguro became bankrupt after launching a range of lightweight motorcycles which sold poorly, and experiencing a yearlong strike.
The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan rates the 1937 Meguro Z97 as one of their 240 Landmarks of Japanese Automotive Technology.