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When and where the first automobile industry was started in India?
When and where the first automobile industry was started in India?
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The correct option is B 1949, Kurla (Mumbai)
It was towards the end of the war that the importance of
establishing an indigenous automobile industry in India was realized when
Premier Automobiles Ltd. (PAL) and Hindustan Motors (HM) set up factories in
the mid-40s for progressive manufacture rather than assembly from imported
components. HM was established in 1942 for the manufacture of certain auto
components, but it was only in 1949 that the company actually began making
cars. PAL was founded in 1944 by Seth Walchand Hirachand, a visionary and
industrialist of pre-independent India, and as early as 1946 assembly of the Dodge
DeSoto and Plymouth cars at PAL's Kurla (Mumbai) Plant commenced.
It was towards the end of the war that the importance of establishing an indigenous automobile industry in India was realized when Premier Automobiles Ltd. (PAL) and Hindustan Motors (HM) set up factories in the mid-40s for progressive manufacture rather than assembly from imported components. HM was established in 1942 for the manufacture of certain auto components, but it was only in 1949 that the company actually began making cars. PAL was founded in 1944 by Seth Walchand Hirachand, a visionary and industrialist of pre-independent India, and as early as 1946 assembly of the Dodge DeSoto and Plymouth cars at PAL's Kurla (Mumbai) Plant commenced.
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