From Indiana to India

Largest of Studebaker Export Corporation's assembly plants, the Kolkata (Calcutta) location was built and operated by Hindustan Motors Ltd., which was established in 1942. This plant not only served India, but also Myanmar (then Burma), Nepal, and Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). Hindustan Motors Ltd. had a smaller assembly plant at Port Okha, this sketch, however, shows their facility with larger capacity that was finished in 1948.