Hindustan Motors is an automobile

Automobile

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 manufacturer from India. It is part of the Birla Technical Services

Birla Technical Services

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 industrial group. The company was the largest car manufacturer in India before the rise of Maruti Udyog

Maruti Udyog

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It is the producer of the Ambassador

Hindustan Ambassador

The Hindustan Ambassador is a car manufactured by Hindustan Motors of India. It has been in production since 1958 with few modifications or changes and is based on the Morris Oxford III model, first made by the Morris Motor Company at Cowley, Oxford in the United Kingdom from 1956 to 1959.Despite...

 car, widely used as a taxicab

Taxicab

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 and as a government limousine

Limousine

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. This car is based on the Morris Oxford

Morris Oxford

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, a British

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 car that dates back to 1954.

One of the original three car manufacturers in India, founded in 1942 by Mr.