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Tuesday, Oct 18, 2005
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Events Tracing the history of Tata Motors Our Bureau
Pune , Oct. 17 FROM Rail to Road — the Story of Tata Motors. The Tata Group has unveiled an exhibition in Pune showcasing the history of the company. Sixty years ago on June 1, 1945, Tata Sons Ltd purchased from the Government of India, the `Tatanagar Shops' unofficially called the Singhbhum Shops of the East Indian Railway. The purpose was to manufacture steam locomotive boilers and later complete locomotives and other engineering products. Tata Sons decided to set up the project as a new company and called it Tata Locomotive and Engineering Company Ltd, which then became Telco. The roadmap was laid out clearly by the Chairman, J. R. D. Tata (1945-1973), and Sumand Moolgaokar, Chairman (1973-1988), who sensing the boom in the automobile industry set up the second factory in Pune. The rest is history. The company is celebrating its diamond jubilee celebrations this year as also the 100th birth anniversary of Moolgaokar, better known as the Architect of Tata Motors. Leading the company for more than four decades, he built the company into an organisation capable of competing with the world's best - in terms of people, process and technology. "Expect the best, ask for it, pursue it relentlessly and you will get it'' is what he advocated. So for Puneites and for those who are not very familiar with the history of Tata, the Tata Central Archives is now showcasing the entire history of Tata, from its inception to its present status. On exhibition are thousands of documents, letters, maps, charts, photographs and memorabilia, press clippings, audio/video recordings of the history of the Tatas. `Small car will be out in 3 years'
MR Ravi Kant, Managing Director, Tata Motors Ltd, who inaugurated the exhibition, said the `small car' from the Tata stable would be brought out within three years and currently the review is being done in Pune. "Every two weeks the review is being conducted and we would be able to present to the consumers a vehicle which will be revolutionary in more sense than one." He said this has not been attempted anywhere else in the world and if there is one company in the world that can do this, it is Tata.
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