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What we compareLMLTVS Motor Company
Country in archiveIndiaIndia
Founded19721911
FounderLohia Machines Private LimitedT. V. Sundram Iyengar
HeadquartersKanpur, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Name originLML comes from the company's earlier name, Lohia Machines Limited. The initials were kept as the brand name when the firm moved from textile machinery into scooters and motorcycles.TVS comes from the initials of T. V. Sundram Iyengar, who began Madurai's first bus service in 1911 and founded the transport business from which the TVS Group grew.
HighlightsLML Star, Freedom, GraptorApache, Jupiter, Victor, TVS 50
Earliest archived brand logo2017—
Latest archived logo2022undated
Archived logo assets21

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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