Topic: SOLVED: FW #362: Aichi Giant Star AA5B 1952 by Aichi Machine Industry Co. Ltd.

[fromwien]

Please identify this car in ALL its details

[fromwien]

Experts?

[BattlePorQ]

Indonesia?

[Rusty Chrome]

It's a minibus from Giant of Japan from the late 1940s probably based on their AA13F chassis

[fromwien]

Indonesia?

No

It's a minibus from Giant of Japan from the late 1940s probably based on their AA13F chassis

Japan is right and Giant part of the name of the threewheeler

[Rusty Chrome]

Giant were a brand of three-wheeled vehicles from the Aichi Machine Industry. The company later made cars under the Cony brand. I'm pretty sure this is the Giant AA5B Sedan, the Giant Star from 1950

[fromwien]

Yes, this is what my source (nearly completely) says too: Aichi Giant Star AA5B, 1952 by Aichi Machine Industry Co. Ltd. (former Shin Aichi Entrepreneur Co. Ltd., 1947-1952).
The source additional mentions, that the Aichi Giants were the first Japanese commercial threewheelers with fully enclosed bodywork
Attached another (better) picture of the puzzle-car and of its predecessor

[fromwien]

One more attachment with a copy of a 1952 ad or brochure

At first glance I wanted to ask for the engines used in Giant-threewheelers, but left it out as too special: The AA1-type has been powered by a watercooled(!) 19 HP-636ccm-OHV(!)-engine, superseded  later on by watercooled(!) 855ccm and 1145ccm opposed-two-cylinder(!)-OHV-engines