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Hindustan Motors Limited (HML), India’s pioneering automobile manufacturing company and Flagship Company of the C.K. Birla Group was established just before Indian independence, in 1942 by Mr. B.M. Birla of the industrious Birla family. Commencing operations in a small assembly plant in Port Okha near Gujarat, the manufacturing facilities later moved to Uttarpara, West Bengal in 1948, where it began the production of – the Ambassador.
Hindustan Motors Limited over the years has equipped itself with state-of-the-art facilities for the production of passenger cars, trucks and multi utility vehicles.
Besides passenger cars (Ambassador, Grand, and Avigo), Multi Utility Vehicles (Trekker, Porter, and Pushpak) and the RTV, Hindustan Motors also manufactures passenger cars in the mid size premium segment (Mitsubishi Lancer, Lancer Select, and Lancer Cedia) and has brought in Sports Utility Vehicle (Mitsubishi Pajero) into the Indian market in collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors, Japan.
Contributing significantly to the Indian Automotive industry for over five decades, Hindustan Motors Limited’s manufacturing facilities are situated in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Tamilnadu and West Bengal.
HML’s plant in Tiruvallur, Chennai is an exclusive state-of-the art plant dedicated to the manufacture of Mitsubishi Lancer cars and now the Sports Utility Vehicle – Pajero in technical collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors, Japan.
Hindustan Motors began operations in Thiruvallur, Tamilnadu three decades ago with the manufacture of Earthmoving equipment such as dumpers, front-end loaders, crawler tractors etc. Since 1998, the plant began the manufacture of Mitsubishi Lancer. The manufacturing facility at Thiruvallur has a capacity to produce 12,000 vehicles per annum. The plant is built to the exacting standards of Mitsubishi Motors, incorporating contemporary quality control processes.
The Automobile division at Uttarpara, West Bengal near Kolkata, is engaged in the manufacture of Passenger Cars- Ambassadors, Contessa and Multi Utility Vehicles -Trekker, Porter and Pushpak.
In 1948, Hindustan Motors shifted its assembly plant from Port Okha in Gujarat to Uttarpara in the Hooghly district of West Bengal and strengthened its manufacturing capacity in the automobile segment.
Engaged in the manufacture of the Ambassador, Contessa and utility vehicles like the Trekker, Porter and Pushpak, the plant also has to its credit, many innovations and improvements in the automobile industry in India. Hindustan Motors is the only manufacturing facility in the world to manufacture parts for Bedford trucks currently.
The Pithampur plant in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, houses the Road Trusted Vehicle division, manufacturing the “RTV” brand of multi utility vehicles, in technical collaboration with OKA Motor Company, Australia.
The company has successfully made inroads into urban, semi-urban and rural markets. With a number of engine options available, the RTV incorporates a pragmatic design making it adaptable to a multiplicity of purposes. RTVs come with a body configuration most suitable for material distribution, easy loading and unloading. The RTV is spacious, adaptable and economical. The U.S.P. of it being, they can even be customized to the requirements of the user.
Group HQ:
Birla Tower,
8th Floor,
25 Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi – 110 001.
India.
Tel:(11)42092100
Fax:(11)42092198
Registered Office:
Hindustan Motors Limited,
Birla Building,
9/1 Rajendra Nath Mukherjee Rd,
Kolkata – 700 001.
West Bengal.
Tel
33)22420932
Fax
33)22480055, 22205708
Corporate Office:
Hindustan Motors Limited,
6-B, Grand South Trunk
(GST) Road, St. Thomas Mount,
Chennai – 600 016.
Tamil Nadu.
Tel
44)22346651
Fax
44)22342243
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