[KartikeyaL]

Here is an old picture

[Brutus]

Originally Posted by travancore

Interesting small, bumper mounted headlamps ?

The first few batches were the original narrow cab trucks, 100% licenced clones of the Mercedes Benz truck L325. The Indigenous version came later, after they made changes to the vehicle so as to better suit the indian conditions, like the widened cab and air vents on either side.

The Sikh gentleman in the picture, I believe, was the owner of the Bombay based “Sandhu Transport”, now made famous as the transport company whose trucks were used as the preferred ‘Hit & Run’ murder weapon by the villainous henchmen of the main antagonist of Bollywood films right upto the 90’s.

[KartikeyaL]

Prince of Wales with Calcutta Fire Brigade, Circa 1922

His Highness the Prince of Wales inspecting the Calcutta Fire Brigade which is equipped with the most modern of fire apparatus and is said to be one of the most complete and efficient organizations of its kind in the world.

Source

[KartikeyaL]

Some Getty images picture's of commercial vehicles from Calcutta.

















and here is one with early Lambretta's in the center (thanks Karl for identifying) and some lovely horse drawn carriages.

[Stanher]

Originally Posted by KartikeyaL

and here is one with early Lambretta's in the center (thanks Karl for identifying) and some lovely horse drawn carriages.

And a Standard 10 commercial van, albeit not completely visible!

[KartikeyaL]

Somewhere in India, this old tractor is waiting to get restored.

[KartikeyaL]

Some more Getty images pictures

Kumbh Mela, 1953


Look at the fuel station ?


A lovely old Harley from Delhi


Calcutta riots


International expo

[travancore]

Ooty 1963 with Vanguard MDT-3207 and unknown actress

[KartikeyaL]

Vehicle on a ferry

[Rahul Bhalgat]

Originally Posted by travancore

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Ooty 1963 with Vanguard MDT-3207 and unknown actress

Looks to be Farida Jalal or Sharmila Tagore, from the side profile of the face.

The Mercedes buses in the background too are attractive (though in the childhood, I used to be scared of this face).

[directinjection]

Originally Posted by Klub Class

A Tata 1210 tow truck lying along the good old NH 17 (currently NH66) near Kolappuram, Kerala

Originally Posted by tharian

Weren't these badged '1210D' always ?

The 1210 model was introduced in 1964 and no, it didn't have the suffix "D" attached to it at that time! Its introduction coincided with the completion of 10 years of Tata's collaboration with Daimler Benz. 1210 was the ruggedised/Indianised version of the original Mercedes Benz L 312, offering higher payload.

Tata 1210 became 1210 "D" in 1970 with the introduction of direct injection technology which Daimler had introduced in Germany in 1964 (in the engine OM 352) but which wasn't passed on to Tata immediately. Tata obtained rights for DI technology through a fresh collaboration agreement signed with Daimler in 1970, post the expiry of the original 15-year collaboration agreement in 1969. However, the new collaboration was purely for technology and design rights for OM 352. It didn't give Tata the right to use Mercedes Benz name or logo, unlike before. Also, the royalty was fixed at a lump sum fee of 1 million pounds instead of on percentage of revenue revenue basis as was the case earlier.

Conversion of 1210 to 1210D helped in reducing fuel consumption by 15% even as power jumped by 15 HP!

[directinjection]

Originally Posted by harit

Some more TATA - Mercedes - Benz stuff.

A function held for the introduction of the L325 7.5 ton truck.

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Cheers harit

L 325 was the big brother of L 312 that Tata was license manufacturing in India. At 7274 CC, its engine was substantially bigger than L 312's 4580 CC. Daimler wanted Tata to sell these heavy duty Made-in-Germany trucks in India alongside the medium duty L312 that was being produced locally. Some trucks were supplied to Tata for this purpose and apparently the truck in your photo is one of those. However, as Govt. of India policy discouraged imports, the practice wasn't continued.

Originally Posted by travancore

Interesting small, bumper mounted headlamps ?

Yes, the headlamps in L 325 were bumper mounted which wasn't the case with L 312. L 325 also had a longer bonnet. The two trucks were visually similar but only superficially.

Reproduced below are pics of L 312 and L 325 respectively:

[Rahul Rao]

For some one who wants to see the real thing, there is a maharashtra Police owned Leyland Hippo crane parked in the Bhor ghats in the Police parking lots just down hill from Amrutanjan bridge.
One very well maintained Green colour Mercedese 7.5 ton truck is ocassionally seen in the lane opposite IOC petrol Pump near Pune Maldhakka chowk.

Originally Posted by SJM1214

Whats in the world was Allwyn Nissan Ltd? Never heard of it.

Allwyn Nissan were common in the late 80's and early 90's. later on Mahindra took over the company and they were labled Mahindra Allwyn Nissan.
They were noticable as the only LCV with a column mounted gear stick, and a full bench seat to seat three.

Rahul

[KartikeyaL]

A 1920's vintage fire truck carries the local fire brigade, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province

(Photo by J. Bruce Baumann/National Geographic/Getty Images

[travancore]

A Merryweather of the Calcutta Fire Brigade, 1913