Chevrolet? On 4/12/11, biswajit barooah <biswajitbaro...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Proud Possessor of a > second hand black sevrolet > Biswajit Barooah. > (www.biswajitbarooah.com) > It became a fantasy for all the Aristocratic families over the world when > the renowned Motor car manufacturing Industry launched its new model of > Savrolet cars in the years 1936. The marketing Division of this industry the > Allen Barry and Company even set up four centers for show rooms in their > colonial India according to the demands for the Savrolet cars. One will be > astonished to know that one of the four centers was Dibrugarh, after > Calcutta, Delhi and Lakhnow. In regard to this the company’s enterpreneur Mr > Allen Barry’s youngest son Mr. Steward himself had come to Dibrugarh and > opened up a branch office in a big building with showrooms. As I could > gather information from the elderly citizens of Dibrugarh, the site was very > much near to the then circuit house by the bank of the river Brahmaputra. > The showroom displayed seven Savrolet cars which were bought by Sir Steward > on the deck of the ships as told to me by some senior citizens of Dibrugarh. > The opening up of the Allen Barry and Company in India i.e. Calcutta, Delhi, > Lowknow and Dibrugarh was highlighted in all the leading mass communications > of that time. The Rs. 3,675/= rate Savrolat could be easily purchased at > Dibrugarh at an initial payment of Rs. 220/=. We do come across the 1936 > Savrolet model among many familiers of Assam mainly kept as a prestigious > possession. > My father while practicing in Jorhat Bar during sixtees was a proud > possessor of a second hand black Sevrolet car purchased on 10.2.1965 from an > anglo-indian tea planter of Dibrugarh. > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org >
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