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1948 Hindustan 10. Hindustan Motors Limited (HML) was India's pioneering automobile manufacturing company. It was established just before the Indian Independence Act 1947, in 1942 by B. M. Birla of the industrialist Birla family in collaboration with Lord Nuffield of Morris Motors, who were already selling their cars in India.
Hindustan Motors was the only manufacturing facility in the world to manufacture parts for the obsolete Bedford trucks. Sale of Ambassador taxis has been outlawed since 1 April 2011, a year after BS IV emission standards were rolled out in 11 Indian cities, including Kolkata .
Hyundai Motor India Limited: Passenger vehicles Hosur: Caterpillar Inc. Commercial vehicles Tiruvallur, Chennai [16] Mitsubishi, Groupe PSA: Passenger vehicles Oragadam, Chennai [42] Renault India Private Limited, Datsun, Nissan Motor India Private Limited: Passenger vehicles Ennore, Chennai [19] Ashok Leyland: Commercial vehicles Hosur [19 ...
GM continued with tie-ups with Hindustan Motors to build Bedford trucks, Vauxhall cars, Allison Transmissions and off-road equipment. In 1994, GMIPL was formed as a joint venture, owned 50 percent by Hindustan Motors and 50 percent by General Motors, to produce and sell Opel branded vehicles. GM bought out the Hindustan Motors interest in 1999.
Indian Standards were variations of vehicles made in the U.K. by Standard-Triumph.Standard Motor Products of India Ltd. (SMPI) was incorporated in 1948, [149] and their first product was the Vanguard, which began to be assembled in 1949. The company was dissolved in 2006 and the old plant torn down.
HMT Limited, formerly Hindustan Machine Tools Limited, is an Indian state-owned electronics company under the control of the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India. [6] It was founded in 1953 as a machine tool manufacturing company, diversifying into watches, tractors, printing machinery, metal forming presses, die casting and ...
Force Motors Ltd is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company, based in Pune. From 1958 until 2005, the company was known as Bajaj Tempo Motors because it originated as a joint venture between Bajaj Trading Corporation (now Bajaj Auto) and Germany's Tempo for manufacturing auto components. [ 1 ]
Chennai is nicknamed the "Detroit of Asia" [1] due to the presence of major automobile manufacturing units and allied industries around the city.. A number of big motor companies has presence along the 60 km Automotive Corridor which includes BMW, Ford, Hyundai, Renault-Nissan, Mitsubishi, Caparo Group, Komatsu, Caterpillar, Ashok Leyland, TVS, and others.