Category: APL / American President Lines

APL is the shipping company that brought the first large shipments of Toyopets to the US and was the operator of the ship that brought the first samples over that arrived in San Francisco.

APL (American President Lines) & Toyota (the unknown history?)

On By cdftupelocdfmsIn APL / American President Lines, APL President Cleveland, Long Beach, California, Maritime Library Archives, Samples, San Francisco, California2 Comments

On July 23, 2008, Daron Pitts and Jamie Kennedy of the Community Development Foundation visited the San Francisco Maritime Library located at Fort Mason Center Building E, near Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco. Several internet searches led to historical documents connecting APL and the first Toyopet samples. It was believed (according to Toyota archivists that …

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