Hindustan Motors is an Indian automotive manufacturer based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
It is part of the Birla Technical Services industrial group.
The company was the largest car manufacturer in India before the rise of Maruti Udyog.
It was the producer of the Ambassador motorcar, once a mainstream car India,
based on 1956 Morris Oxford series III and was in production for over 7 decades starting from 1957 till 2014.
Production of the Ambassador ceased on 24 May 2014.[1]
One of the original three car manufacturers in India, founded in 1942 by Mr. B. M. Birla,
it was a leader in car sales until the 1980s, when the industry was opened up from protection.
