T. V. Sundram Iyengar
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Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar （22 March 1877 - 28 April 1955） was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer.
In 1911, he founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and emerged as the parent company of the TVS Group, one of India's biggest business conglomerates.
With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time.
The Flagship Company of the group is TVS Motors established by his son T.S. Doraiswamy.
He laid foundation for road transport industry in the erstwhile Madras Presidency through the state's first bus service.
The TVS group he thus started now extends from motor industry, auto services to financial services.
T.V. Sundram Iyengar was born in 1877 in Thirukkurungudi, in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.
T.V. Sundram Iyengar started his career as a lawyer.
As per his father's wishes, he then moved to work for the Indian Railways and later in a bank.
Sundram Iyengar later quit his jobs and laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India when he first started a bus service in the city of Madurai in the year 1911.
He established the T.V. Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited in 1911, which by his death in 1955, operated a number of buses and lorries under the title of Southern Roadways Limited.
This paved the way for the genesis of the TVS Group.
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 division of T V Sundram Iyengar & Sons Ltd.
The former ...
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