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During the times of the second world war, Madras
Presidency was met with petrol scarcity. To meet the demands, Sundram Iyengar designed and produced the TVS Gas Plant. He also started a factory for rubber retreading, besides two more concerns, the Madras Auto Service Ltd and the Sundaram Motors, a
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Iyengar had five sons and three daughters, and in his patriarchal Tamil Brahmin family all male members got into the business. With his son, T. S. Doraisamy's early death, four other sons — T. S. Rajam, T. S. Santhanam, T. S. Srinivasan and T. S. Krishna – became an integral part of the
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Sundram Iyengar, according to the company, is currently the largest automobile distribution company in India, enjoys a turnover of about US$ 8.5 Billion and has an employee strength of over 60,000. The group operates in diverse fields like automotive component
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Iyengar married Lakshmi Ammal and they had eight children - five sons and three daughters. Their son T. S. Doraiswamy, died at an early age. T. V. Sundram Iyengar accepted his daughter
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division of T. V. Sundram
Iyengar & Sons Ltd. The former was the largest distributor for General Motors in the 1950s. What started as a single man's passion soon became the business of a family.
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in 1911, which by his death in 1955, operated a number of buses and lorries under the title of
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through the state's first bus service. The TVS group he thus started now extends from motor industry, auto services to financial services.
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