Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Hindustan Ambassador is an automobile that was manufactured by Indian manufacturer Hindustan Motors from 1957 to 2014, with improvements and changes over its production lifetime. The Ambassador was based on the Morris Oxford series III model, first made by Morris Motors Limited at Cowley, Oxford in the United Kingdom from 1956 to 1959.
This page was last edited on 19 December 2024, at 11:14 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The Morris Oxford Series III, launched in 1955–56, only had a short production run in the UK, but it was manufactured in India as the Hindustan Ambassador by Hindustan Motors with periodic changes till 2014 The Morris Mini launched in 1959 would influence a whole new generation into small cars. The Mini was produced until 2000.
TVS Motor: Two wheelers Kolar: Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India: Two wheelers Bengaluru [11] Mahindra Reva: Passenger vehicles Bidadi: Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Limited: Passenger vehicles Kolara [12] Scania Commercial Vehicles India Private Limited: Commercial vehicles Doddaballapura [9] TAFE Tractors: Commercial vehicles Dharwad [10 ...
The Hindustan Contessa is an automobile which was manufactured by Hindustan Motors (HM) of India from 1984 to 2002. It was based on the Vauxhall VX Series of 1976 to 1978, itself a development of the Vauxhall Victor FE. When introduced in 1983, it was one of the few Indian manufactured luxury cars in the market.
For model year 1973, it was marketed as the Premier President and subsequently as the Premier Padmini. At its peak during the 1970s and 1980s, the car achieved immense popularity among youngsters, celebrities and women. Compared to the Hindustan Ambassador, it looked more modern, was more fuel-efficient and was very easy to drive.
In 1948, Braj Mohan Birla started the operations of Hindustan Motors, an automotive company that he founded in West Bengal. [11] Known for producing the Ambassador car, widely used as a taxicab and government limousine, Hindustan Motors held the position of India's largest car manufacturer until the rise of Maruti Udyog. [12] [13]