New India Industries
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New India Industries Ltd was a company in Vadodara (then and now also known by the anglicised name Baroda), Gujarat, India, owned by the local Ghia family. For some time from 1960 the company, which had previously worked in textiles, made some of Agfa's simpler cameras under licence from Agfa.[1] Agfa bought one quarter of the company. In 1963 they began making photographic paper at a new factory in Mulund, a suburban area of north-east Mumbai. The company may still exist, though if so it clearly doesn't make Agfa products now.
Cameras
The Autostar pocket camera is embossed 'Made in India', so may also be by New India Industries.
Notes
- ↑ The Photochemical Industry: Historical Essays in Business Strategy and Internationalization Lutz Alt, 1986; PhD Thesis at MIT, pp60-61. Archived as PDF at the Core database of open-access research papers.
