Intro: industan Motors Limited, the flagship company of the GP-CK Birla Group, is the pioneer automobile manufacturing company of India. Starting off as a single product company, Hindustan Motors has grown into a Rs. 1700 crore turnover company manufacturing Passenger Cars, Multi Utility Vehicles, Trucks, Engines & Transmissions and Powershift Transmissions for Earthmoving Equipment.
Hindustan Motors' manufacturing facilities are spread across India: Uttarpara, West Bengal (making Ambassadors and Trekkers, and has 35,000-unit capacity); Pithampura, Madhya Pradesh (making engine and gearboxes for all the vehicles and also rolling out the rural transport vehicle [RTV]); Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Lancer and Pajero models); and power products division (PPD), Hosur (manufacturing automatic power-shift transmissions for earthmoving and other vehicles).
Some of the illustrations are courtesy of Autocar India. |
