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| If curious vehicles are your thing then India is your dream come true. Here a farmer drives a contraption that is part diesel generator, part camel cart and part buggy. | The vespa (left) was once India's favoured family vehicle. With side-car it could fit 5...in about the same comfort as the 20-odd people in the 'elephant tempo' (right). |
The 'Ambassador' was a 1954 Morris. Still sold virtually unchanged it was the favoured car of the Indian bureaucracy and it remains the quintessential symbol of the license raj. |
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| Like the vespa, the Fiat came to India by way of Italy but India soon made the car its own. Though production has now ceased, for 30 years this was the 'sporty' alternative to the bulky Ambassador. | For years the 250 cc Jawa (left) and the 350 cc Royal Enfield 'Bullet' (right) were the only bikes a boy could buy. Japanese bikes have killed the Jawa (later called the Yezdi), but the Bullet has become a cult machine. | Far from cult bikes and antique cars, some modes of transportation seem to have a timelessness appeal. |
