The Tata LPT 613 is one of the Tata Motors Ltd entries the open record knows by name, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
The background
TATA LPT 613 is a truck produced by the Indian manufacturer Tata Motors. This truck is part of the TATA LPT family of trucks, based on second-generation Mercedes-Benz LN.
In Ukraine, this model is manufactured in the city of Chornomorsk in the Odesa Oblast at the CJSC "ZAZ" and in the "Boryspil Bus Plant" in Prolisky, Kyiv Oblast. The trucks manufactured by the latter are sold under the brand name BAZ-T713 Podorozhnik. From the 2004 model year, the model is made in Russia by the company "Automobiles and engines of the Urals" under the name AMUR-4346.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Tata Motors Ltd's history is not in doubt: it was built at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (Tata Motors). Its Tata Motors Ltd stablemates include the TaMo Racemo and the Tata 407.