happy b'day tata

[T90TankGuy]

while the TATA company tied up with Mercedes Benz to make their trucks . the Hinduja group tied up with Leland .
both were immensely successful but the Leland trucks were better .

 

[harpoon]

Tata trucks were once called Tata-Benz.
This is a pic of first production:

The old timers like my Grandfather still refers to TATA Trucks as Benz.

 

[nForce]

You can all rape the English language all you want- i do not care-

Definition: Birthday-
The annual anniversary of the day on which a person was born.



Definition: Anniversary-
The date on which an event took place in a previous year.
The date on which a country or other institution was founded in a previous year.

Relax..what is being done hear is called 'Personification'

Personification : A trope or figure of speech (generally considered a type of metaphor) in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities


I hope you will agree that it is allowed in English language.

@ topic : Happy birthday Tata.

 

[nForce]

One of the many interesting facts about Tata. Jamshedji Tata decided to make the first Iron & Steel Company of the subcontinent,Tata Steel.
The British greeted their effort with skepticism and derision. Sir Frederick Upcott, Chief Commissioner of the Indian Railways, remarked to Charles Perin, “Do you mean to say that the Tatas propose to make steel rails to British specifications? Why, I will undertake to eat every pound of steel they succeed in making?” Yet, during World War I, it was the Tatas who supplied steel rails to Mesopotamia, which played an important part in the allied victories.

Now fast forward to 2006,Tata steel takes over the largest steel manufacturer of UK,Corus.Fast forward to 2011,Tata Steel is World's 7th largest manufacturer of steel and India's 2nd largest,with a foothold among the Fortune global 500.

I guess Sir Frederick Upcott never imagined this in his wildest dreams.

 

[harpoon]

^^ I mentioned this in other threads but I heard that when TATA was making their first vehicles, Mr. Honda was busy with his bicycle shop and when TATA finally made a car Honda is one of the premier car brands in the world.The 1947-1991 Socialist licence raj period suffocated Indian industry.

 

[takeiteasy]

while the TATA company tied up with Mercedes Benz to make their trucks . the Hinduja group tied up with Leland .
both were immensely successful but the Leland trucks were better .

haha it used to be our reason to fight as children. people admire the engine roar of Leylands. Tata "sounds" sissy . True?

 

[Trisonics]

Tata's journey from trucks to Nano

1954
Tata launched its first Mercedes Benz diesel truck, Telco.

1958
India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, walks through the apprentice shop at Jamshedpur.

1965
The owner of the first Mercedes Benz diesel truck, Sardar Kartar singh is presented with the key of the 1,00,000th truck.

1969
Employees cheer as the first Tata branded truck rolls out, ending the collaboration with Daimler Benz, Germany.

 

[Trisonics]

1977
Tata manufactures its first commercial vehicle at its plant in Pune.[/B]

1986
Tata launches its first light commercial vehicle from Telco, the Tata 407.

1992
Tata Estate, Telco's second passenger vehicle launched by JRD Tata and Ratan Tata.

1994
Tata Motors released its multi-utility car, Tata Sumo in the year 1994. After that, there was no stopping the car manufacturing unit.

1998
Ratan Tata drives the first Tata Indica off the assembly line.

1998
Tata Motors produced an SUV, Tata Safari. It was the first SUV to be designed, developed and manufactured entirely in India.

2002
Tata introduced India's most competitive indigenous sedan, the Indigo.

2003
Tata Engineering formally changes to Tata Motors.

2004
Tata Motors acquires Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Company, South Korea. The first range of Tata Novus vehicles from Tata Daewoo is launched soon after.

 

[Trisonics]

2004
Tata Motors starts its globalisation drive and launches the Tata Indica in South Africa.

2008
Tata Motors launched the most-awaited car of the year, its one-lakh car called Nano, at the 9th Auto Expo.

 

[nForce]

^^ I mentioned this in other threads but I heard that when TATA was making their first vehicles, Mr. Honda was busy with his bicycle shop and when TATA finally made a car Honda is one of the premier car brands in the world.The 1947-1991 Socialist licence raj period suffocated Indian industry.

You are right.The sanctions imposed upon India are to blame as well.While India was virtually writhing under sanctions and trade related bans almost everywhere across the World,the Japanese industries in general and automobile sector in particular received massive boost.they were welcome everywhere.
another significant boost came in form of the 1970s fuel crisis that had affected mainly W.Germany,US,Canada.The US made cars were notoriously fuel hungry,while the Japanese cars made by Honda were fuel efficient,although less powerful,but exactly what a typical middle-class American family needed.the stricter emission control rules in US also aided since the Japanese cars had lower emission.The Japanese cars started selling like hot cakes and gained market monopoly.

 

[harpoon]

You are right.The sanctions imposed upon India are to blame as well.While India was virtually writhing under sanctions and trade related bans almost everywhere across the World,the Japanese industries in general and automobile sector in particular received massive boost.they were welcome everywhere.
another significant boost came in form of the 1970s fuel crisis that had affected mainly W.Germany,US,Canada.The US made cars were notoriously fuel hungry,while the Japanese cars made by Honda were fuel efficient,although less powerful,but exactly what a typical middle-class American family needed.the stricter emission control rules in US also aided since the Japanese cars had lower emission.The Japanese cars started selling like hot cakes and gained market monopoly.

Eventhough I agree with many of your points, I don't agree on the sanction part. India was no sanctions during the 1950s,60s & 70s until we exploded our n-Bomb. We got crappy cars during our socialistic era bcs the Govt of the time decided that Indians deserved only crappy cars and that too after years of waiting after booking. I heard one has to wait 8 years to even get a Bajaj scooter (?)

 

[nForce]

Eventhough I agree with many of your points, I don't agree on the sanction part. India was no sanctions during the 1950s,60s & 70s until we exploded our n-Bomb. We got crappy cars during our socialistic era bcs the Govt of the time decided that Indians deserved only crappy cars and that too after years of waiting after booking. I heard one has to wait 8 years to even get a Bajaj scooter (?)

Actually I was relating the sanction part with the International fuel crisis of the 1970s.It was then when the Japanese manufacturers grew by leaps and bounds.

But your point is valid indeed.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s,the media was virtually non-existent,and whatever was there,was state owned,partially blind to the darker parts of the society,more of a propaganda machinery.
Hence,our great leaders of those times had no whistle blowers,resulting in rampant corruption and slow economic growth.
As you have mentioned earlier the socialist outlook is to blame as well.

This reminds me of one of the many stories my father used to tell me,he works for a bank.He was a Junior officer at that time,probably in the 70s.The bank employees were given instructions by the Employee Union to protest against the installation of computers in some bank as the computer may take away someone's job.they eventually did protest!!It seems funny now,isnt it??

BTW.. my father is still in touch with one of the leaders of the Employee Union who was a vehement opposer of use of computers.His son is a Computer Engineer now.