Work on the first batch of road rollers is completed. Assistant foreman Sardar Prem Singh, who built this first batch, is seen here standing in front of the line-up.

Locomotive workshops came up with the target to manufacture 100 locomotives and 100 boilers a year. Pictured here is a complete ‘YG’ steam locomotive — meter gauge type.

JRD and Thelma Tata, along with then director-in-charge of TELCO, Sumant Moolgaokar, view a model locomotive built to the design of the famous ‘Royal Scot’, by TELCO apprentices.

The first batch of technicians who went for advanced practical training in locomotive manufacture to Krauss-Maffei AG in Germany, with which TELCO had a technical aid agreement.

Tibetan spiritual leaders Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama visit TELCO this year.

Then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on a visit to TELCO.

The first Tata Mercedes-Benz truck being loaded at Bombay docks for shipment to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). TELCO products were exported to several countries across the globe, amounting to an export value that ran into crores.

Sumant Moolgaokar presents the 100,000th truck to Sardar Kartar Singh, vice president of the Montgomery Goods Transport Society, New Delhi.

The first batch of vehicles bearing the ‘T’ insignia roll out of TELCO Works. In 1960, the company was rechristened Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co Ltd; in 1969, the ‘star’ emblem was replaced with ‘T’, signifying the end of a long collaboration with Daimler-Benz.

Employees bid goodbye to the last locomotive.

The industrial tractor manufactured by TELCO, pulling the Indian Air Force fighter Gnat at the Republic Day Celebrations in New Delhi.

1516 vehicles at the TELCO assembly line in Pune. Set up across 930 acres of land in the Pimpri-Chinchwad area, the facility produced its first commercial vehicle in 1977. Today, it is known for its quality manufacturing facilities as well as for its R&D centre.

The first Tata Hitachi Excavator. In the early ’60s, TELCO started manufacturing mechanical cranes and excavators with M/s Harnischfeger Corporation, USA. 20 years later, TELCO decided to pursue the latest technology through a collaboration with M/s Hitachi of Japan.

JRD Tata at the Tata Estate launch in 1992. The ’90s saw a spate of launches: the first passenger car, Tata Sierra; the iconic fully indigenous Tata Indica; India’s first SUV Tata Safari; and the Tata Sumo. In the mid-’90s, TELCO brought Mercedes Benz to India.

Late President APJ Abdul Kalam visits TELCO.

Then Chairman of Tata Motors, Ratan N Tata signs the acquisition deal of Jaguar Land Rover. In 2003, TELCO had been renamed Tata Motors Ltd, and the trend of vehicle launches continued through the 2000s, with production and manufacturing at an all-time high.

Ratan Tata at the launch of the Tata Nano on this year.

Tata Sons Chairman, N Chandrasekaran – also Chairman of Tata Motors – and Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons, Ratan N Tata, flag off the Tigor EV from Tata Motors’ Sanand factory in Gujarat.