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Indian Automotive Industry History
Indian Automotive Industry History
The first motorcar was seen on the Indian roads in 1898. However, it was only forty
four years later, in 1942, when India realized the importance of establishment of an
indigenous automobile industry. Premier Automobiles Ltd.(PAL) and Hindustan
Motors (HM) established industries for full fledged manufacturing of automobiles in
the mid forties.