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Old 22nd March 2023, 17:14   #211
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A Morris Mini being flown to Calcutta, India for evaluation by Hindustan Motors, September 1959.

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A Morris Mini being flown to Calcutta, India for evaluation by Hindustan Motors, September 1959.

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Around the same time, Tata was evaluating the German DKW light car for license production in India, its previous talks with Volkswagen for local manufacture of Beetle through Premier Automobiles having failed to materialize. DKW was then owned by Tata's collaborator Daimler Benz. Government of India was considering granting license for production of a low-cost people's car in the late 1950s. Apparently, both Hindustan Motors and Telco were interested. The Tata project did not materialize as DKW got sold off by Daimler Benz and so the connection got broken. Eventually, Government of India shelved the project and decided not to grant the license to anyone.
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General Motors India announcing the new 1948 model Buicks

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A 1934 account of the first cars to come to India, as reported in the Washington Post, January 28th, 1934, courtesy archive.org

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A 1934 account of the first cars to come to India, as reported in the Washington Post, January 28th, 1934, courtesy archive.org
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From GM Export World, January 1951. Unfortunately, low resolution :(
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An Instagram post also appearing on the Ambassador and Landmaster FB pages about Studebakers in India (HM assembled) was shared by Mr Manoj Kumar.
Incidentally, the Studebaker Automobile Company later Studebaker Corporation, had very well-paid workers and executives. The workers, for this reason, were not members of the powerful United Auto Worker's Union. And the high wages, in fact, dented profits of the company. It was bought by Packard Corporation in 1953 and post merger with Packard, became the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. By 1963 its South Bend, Indiana plant was closed. Production by December 1963 moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. By March 1966, post a short production stint in Canada, Studebaker had to shut shop.
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In 1953 this Morris Commercial forward control van was advertised as being Built in India by the Peninsular Motor Corporation in Calcutta.

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