I got to tour the main Tata steel plant and truck factory back in the late 1980's. I was there more for observing their work with local villages [they had "adopted" 125 of them, teaching skills then buying products from them], so the factory tours were a bit cursory, but it was interesting to see some of the differences in regulations. The truck frames/drive trains were made in Jamshedpur, and the body and interior was attached in what was then Bombay. The driver would pull out of the factory, make a lap around the track, then take off for Bombay [hundreds of miles away - think @ 200 miles West of Calcutta to Mumbai] sitting on a wooden bench with no windshield. Jamshedpur was the ultimate "company town", with the electric supply, schools, hospitals, streets and everything else being part of the company. "Greater Jamshedpur" was about 600,000 people, with a great many living outside the well maintained city proper in surrounding slums. Tata was a well run company, at least back then. BillR
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