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Jeepito And His Owners
Jeepito is a small gasoline-powered vehicle of the Jeepney style. Its manufacturing company is owned by Ronald Carlton Papa Tan, better known as ‘Tonton Papa’, from Baguio, Philippines. Jeepito means Small Jeepney. It is currently the smallest Philippine Jeepney. Jeepito tours the Philippines via invitations by Government offices to promote tourism. Jeepito participates in Festival parades. Specifications It is 92 inches long and 42 inches wide, with a height of 55 inches. History Jeepito was designed in Tan's garage by him in Baguio and then built in Mabalacat, Pampanga by him and his co-builder/mechanic Arnel Pacia. He used a 3- cylinder Suzuki is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs ... multicab engine. He spent a total of Php165,000 to build jeepney and anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeepney
Jeepneys (), sometimes called jeeps (), are minibus-like public utility vehicles, serving as the most popular means of public transportation in the Philippines. They are known for their crowded seating and kitsch decorations, which have become a widespread symbol of Philippine culture and art. A Sarao jeepney was exhibited at the Philippine pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair as a national image for the Filipinos. Jeepneys originate from the American colonial period share taxis known as auto calesas, commonly shortened to "AC". These evolved to modified imported cars with attached carriages in the 1930s which served as cheap passenger utility vehicles in Manila. These vehicles were mostly destroyed in World War II. The need for replacement transport vehicles led to the use of U.S. military jeeps left over from the war, which became the template for the modern jeepney. The word "jeepney" is a portmanteau of post-World War II " jeep" and pre-war " jitney", both words com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baguio
Baguio ( , ), officially the City of Baguio ( ilo, Siudad ti Baguio; fil, Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", owing to its cool climate since the city is located approximately above mean sea level, often cited as in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion, which also makes it conducive for the growth of mossy plants, orchids and pine trees, to which it attributes its other moniker as the "City of Pines". Baguio was established as a hill station by the United States in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as ''Kafagway''. It was the United States' only hill station in Asia. Baguio is classified as a Highly-Urbanized City (HUC). It is geographically located within Benguet, serving as the provincial capital from 1901 to 1916, but has since been administered independently from the province following its conversion into a chartered cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeepito And His Owners
Jeepito is a small gasoline-powered vehicle of the Jeepney style. Its manufacturing company is owned by Ronald Carlton Papa Tan, better known as ‘Tonton Papa’, from Baguio, Philippines. Jeepito means Small Jeepney. It is currently the smallest Philippine Jeepney. Jeepito tours the Philippines via invitations by Government offices to promote tourism. Jeepito participates in Festival parades. Specifications It is 92 inches long and 42 inches wide, with a height of 55 inches. History Jeepito was designed in Tan's garage by him in Baguio and then built in Mabalacat, Pampanga by him and his co-builder/mechanic Arnel Pacia. He used a 3- cylinder Suzuki is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs ... multicab engine. He spent a total of Php165,000 to build jeepney and anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabalacat, Pampanga
Mabalacat, officially the City of Mabalacat ( pam, Lakanbalen ning Mabalacat; fil, Lungsod ng Mabalacat), is a 3rd class component city in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 293,244 people. Etymology The town's name was derived from indigenous Negrito word ''mabalacat'' meaning "forest of balacats". Geography Mabalacat has a land area of . It is from Manila, from Angeles, and from the provincial capital, San Fernando. The soil is charcoal black and shiny, a sign of fertility, and is suitable for growing rice, sugarcane and other rootcrops. Like the neighbouring cities of Angeles and San Fernando and the towns/municipalities of Porac, Bacolor, Santa Rita, Mexico, Magalang and Arayat, this city rarely gets inundated by floods from heavy rains and typhoons because it is situated on an elevated, well-drained part of the Central Luzon plains known as the "Upper Pampanga". Barangays Mabalacat is politically subdivid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzuki
is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. In 2016, Suzuki was the Automotive industry#By manufacturer, eleventh biggest automaker by production worldwide. Suzuki has over 45,000 employees and has 35 production facilities in 23 countries, and 133 distributors in 192 countries. The worldwide sales volume of automobiles is the world's tenth largest, while domestic sales volume is the third largest in the country. Suzuki's domestic motorcycle sales volume is the third largest in Japan. History In 1909, Michio Suzuki (inventor), Michio Suzuki (1887–1982) founded the Suzuki Loom Works in the small seacoast village of Hamamatsu, Japan. Business boomed as Suzuki built loom, weaving looms for Japan's giant silk industry. In 1929 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeepito At The Baguio Flower Festival 2016
Jeepito is a small gasoline-powered vehicle of the Jeepney style. Its manufacturing company is owned by Ronald Carlton Papa Tan, better known as ‘Tonton Papa’, from Baguio, Philippines. Jeepito means Small Jeepney. It is currently the smallest Philippine Jeepney Jeepneys (), sometimes called jeeps (), are minibus-like public transportation, public utility vehicles, serving as the most popular means of Transportation in the Philippines, public transportation in the Philippines. They are known for their .... Jeepito tours the Philippines via invitations by Government offices to promote tourism. Jeepito participates in Festival parades. Specifications It is 92 inches long and 42 inches wide, with a height of 55 inches. History Jeepito was designed in Tan's garage by him in Baguio and then built in Mabalacat, Pampanga by him and his co-builder/mechanic Arnel Pacia. He used a 3- cylinder Suzuki multicab engine. He spent a total of Php165,000 to build jeepney and anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microcars
Microcar is a term often used for the smallest size of cars, with three or four wheels and often an engine smaller than . Specific types of microcars include bubble cars, cycle cars, invacar, quadricycles and voiturettes. Microcars are often covered by separate regulations to normal cars, having relaxed requirements for registration and licensing. Predecessors Voiturette is a term used by some small cars and tricycles manufactured from 1895 to 1910. Cyclecars are a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive car manufactured mainly between 1910 and the late 1920s. Europe 1940-1970: Microcars The first cars to be described as microcars (earlier equivalents were called voiturettes or cyclecars) were built in the United Kingdom and Germany following World War II, and remained popular until the 1960s. They were originally called minicars, but later became known as microcars. France also produced large numbers of similar tiny vehicles called voiturettes, but they were rare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
