Indian Motor-car Industry
English technicians are on their way to India where they will lay the foundations of India’s first motor-car assembly plant, reports the Times Trade and Engineering. They are employees of the famous Nuffield organisation of central England, which was recently asked by Indian industrial circles to help to set up a motor-car industry in India. At first the. cars manufactured will consist almost exclusively of British parts supplied by the Nuffield organisation and assembled in India by Indian labour under the tuition of English technicians. It is proposed to concentrate initially on one model 10 h.p. saloon which will be known as the “ Hindustan. ’ ’ The new industry is financed by “Hindustan Alotors, Limited, which has a capital of £3,500,000, wholly Indian subscribed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 44, 21 February 1945, Page 6
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125Indian Motor-car Industry Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 44, 21 February 1945, Page 6
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