This statement has the significance that, though in the past two years the Company took the step of purchasing machines which would perform the identical functions which the old machines were performing, the Company chose to add these machines as new ones, as a part of its scheme of expansion rather than replace those old machines.
Even Subsequently, for several years.
It is also, significant that these figures of multipliers included in the first Schedule IA.
The Companys witness Bansal number only proved this statement, but also clearly stated that the machines originally purchased and those purchased later shown in, that statement Ext.
were number challenged on behalf of the workmen before the Tribunal.
Appeal by special leave from the Award dated January 8.
In cross examination, he further specifically arrested that the production capacity of these new machines mentioned in Ext.
before the Tribunal.
The work of manufacturing companyponents was taken in hand for the first time in the year 1949, according to the reply of the Company filed on 10th January, 1962, to the statement filed on behalf of the workmen.
833 per car on the Hindustan Landmaster which was the car put on the market by the Company at that time.
VIH 354 of 1961.
1963 of the First Industrial Tribunal, West Bengal in Case No.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
635 of 1965.
29 was very much the same as that of the original machines which were to be replaced when they were new.
Sen, Janardan Sharma, P.K. Ghosh and S.K. Nandy, for the appellants.
The respondent, M s Hindustan Motors Ltd., hereinafter referred to as the Company was established in the year 1942 and, initially, the work taken up by the Company was that of assembling of motor cars from companyponents imported from foreign companyntries.
The JUdgment of the Court was delivered by Bhargava, J. This appeal by special leave has been filed by the workmen of Messrs Hindustan Motors Ltd. against the decision of the First Industrial Tribunal, West Bengal in a dispute relating to payment of bonus for the year 1960 61.
Niren De, Solicitor General, M. Mukherjee and Sardar Bahadur.
29 were the same machines.
for respondent No.
Later on, manufacture of companyponents of motor cars was started and gradually the Company developed this work of manufacture of companyponents by increasing the number of companyponents manufactured by it until, at the present time, the Company is manufacturing more than 70 of the companyponents utilised in the cars put on the market by the Company.
