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Facts about Ambassador -- once upon a time, India's favourite car -- you should know.
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1942: The company (Hindustan Motors) was founded by BM Birla at Port Okha in Gujarat as a small assembly plant for passenger cars. Hindustan Motors was set up during the Second World War in order to produce motor vehicles for the burgeoning Indian middle-classes.
Source: HM
The beginnings
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Shortly after its inception in 1942, Hindustan started working on their first model, the Landmaster with technology borrowed from British manufacturer Morris.
Source: AutoEvolution.com
The Landmaster
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During the early 1950s Hindustan Motors introduced the Morris Minor as “Baby Hindustan”.
Baby Hindustan
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The Morris Oxford Series III entered production in India in 1957, following its withdrawal from the UK market. This arrangement made a lot of sense because the car's tooling was moved lock, stock and barrel from the UK and it enabled Hindustan Motors to produce the car very much on their own terms. This new model was named Ambassador, and would prove to be the mainstay of Hindustan's production well into the new millennium.
The Ambassador is born!
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By the 1950s, the Okha assembly unit could not meet the market’s demand. And so, in 1952 was established a factory at Uttarpara by the Birla group.
This factory has recently issued a ‘work suspension’ notice.
The Uttarpara factory
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In 2003, the then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee made a BMW his official vehicle, probably a milestone in Ambassador’s downfall. Though later Dr. Manmohan Singh used an Ambassador as his official vehicle, it is said that Narendra Modi’s official vehicle would be a Mahindra Scorpio.Source: Sarkari status lost
Losing the ‘sarkari status’
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In a show, which is being aired on the BBC, Top Gear's executive director Richard Hammond organised a world taxi shootout in which Ambassador emerged a winner, beating competitors from all over the globe.Source: World’s taxi
2013: Ambassador car ranked the best taxi in the world by Top Gear
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Ambassador once came up with a DDLJ ad
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“Bollywood’s best loved love story Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was released in 1995. This advertisement for Hindustan Motors Ambassador car is from late 1998.”Source: Cutting the Chai
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