Chevrolet and Ford were asked by the Canadian Government to produce light infantry vehicles for the Commonwealth in 1937 and the result was the Canadian Military Pattern truck, or CMP for short.

But long before these civilian vehicles, Tata's first foray into automobiles was something far more rugged: an armored car built for World War II. Known as the Tatanagar, this was India’s first ...

A 2.5-ton, 6x6 truck, the CCKW was built alongside a similar but smaller model, the Chevrolet G506. A 1.5-ton, 4x4 hauler, the G506 was introduced in 1940 and remained in production until 1945 ...

The exercise was centred around Jamshedpur, the Tata stronghold and the steel city of India. The Indian Pattern Carrier came to be known as ‘Tatanagar’, which is a synecdoche for Jamshedpur.