Hyderabad: Pingle, India’s first traditional car developed by a Hyderabad engineer in the early 1950s, was found half buried in a house in the city.
Low-cost cars are suitable for the condition of the Indian road and mentioned as middle-class cars, first shown at Numish annual in Hyderabad about 70 years ago.
The very damaged found in a city in the city of Pingle, who traced the car after several search decades, restored the vehicle in the best way.
One of the three last car prototypes was seen in good condition in Campus in Bangalore in the early 1970s.
After that, it’s gone.
While its existence is still unknown, two other prototypes are now found in city car homes 50 years later.
They are in various stages of decay.
The car was named after the Pingle captain Madhusudan Reddy, who had designed and developed a vehicle while serving as a general manager, p.
Popularly called PM Reddy, he is a pioneering pilot, Hyderabad State Aero Club flying instructor, Pilot Head Nizam State Railway (NSR) -Air Department, and General Manager of DECCAN Airways Limited.
During World War II when spare parts were difficult to obtain, Prime Minister Reddy also provided technical support to the NSR-Road (RTD) transportation department, the predecessor of the modern APSRTC and TSRTC days.
Pingle is a star attraction in Hyderabad during the 1950s while the engine one of the two cars is lost, the other has the chassis in a bad condition.
“I learned that two pingle cars lay in the trash.
The condition of the vehicle was very bad.
They were half buried on the ground with vegetative growth around.
I have shifted the car from the Broundard and hopes to take it soon restoration work,” said Intach City Convener P Anuradha Reddy , who also daughter-in-law PM Reddy, added that pingle is part of the Hyderabad car heritage.
He said the car was a star attraction in Hyderabad during the 1950s until the 1970s.
Pingle prototypes have showered Hyderabad roads and one of the cars is displayed on Numaish during the 1950s.
It is not clear how the car has walked to the seller of the memo.
Then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has examined the prototype and appreciates the technical design.
The thing is to take mass production of cars, but can’t get a central nod.
The car was designed in Praga Tools Corporation in Kavadiguda in the city.
Praga, PSU, was revealed about three decades ago.
India’s first local car was found half buried at Hyd Scrapyard
