https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/ 2026-04-14T18:24:44+00:00 https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/ https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2023-10-27T13:27:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/panasonic/start?rev=1698413269&do=diff ---------- Panasonic Bicycles Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894-1989) started Matsushita Electric Industrial Company in 1917 in Osaka, Japan. The youngest of eight children, when his father lost all of his money Kōnosuke was forced to leave home and apprentice to a bicycle shop for seven years. At aged 16 he moved to an electronics shop, and soon struck out on his own manufacturing simple electronics under the Matsushita brand. Matsushita began producing bicycles in 1951 and the Panasonic brand was…