Bridgestone Motorcycles Imported into USA

[rwgibbon]

Does anyone know how many Bridgestone Motorcycles where imported
into the USA?

I would like to include the number in a presentation being done
at 2010 AMA Mid-Ohio.

Thank you for your help.

Randy

[bridgestonesforever]

According to 1970 BRIDGESTONE COMPANY ISSUED BOOKLET, where they talk about the Bridgestone Rubber Corp, that state:
Production of over "one million motor driven units"  but from the way it reads it is talking about total production not just for the USA. 
I will scan the whole booklet and post it on this site.  Luke

[rwgibbon]

Thank you.

Randy

[disc_valve]

Hi,

I know this is a bit late, but I've only just seen your post. I don't know how many Bridgestones were sold in the US, but I have seen a 1989 article from a Japanese magazine (written in Japanese) which gives some figures for total production and individual model production. As far as I can tell, this gives a total of 599,828 BS motorcycles produced from the original 1958 "Champion" through to the end of production in 1971.

What this doesn't include is the 30cc, 40cc and 50cc "Bambi" Bicycle power packs that Bridgestone built during the 1950s, before they got into building motorcycles. It is conceivable taht they would have built a lot of these power packs so they might bring the total of "motor driven units" up to the million mark.

One surprising thing I can tell from the figures is that the rarest model seems to be the BS200 - they only made 7,800 of those. Even the BS350 was built in greater numbers than that at 10,500.

I hope that helps!

Graham Weeks

[Hal French]

Graham,

How many SR90, SR100 & SR175 were sold in the US?

Thanks,

Hal French

[Jeff McBrayer]

Hal.  I seem to remember that there were only a handful of SR90's sold, they quickly went with the SR100.
I think the number was only about 10.   I do think they imported a few SR50's too. Maybe someone else knows.  Jeff