Asoke engineering
Asoke Engineering (also Asoke Motors ) was a Thai automobile manufacturer based in Bangkok . Mainly vehicles from General Motors , Holden and Opel were manufactured .
history
Production began in 1973 for General Motors and Siam Motors . Due to the lack of success of the vehicles, vehicle production ended in the early 1980s and the company switched to the manufacture of truck cabs and trailers.
There is no evidence of what became of the company. It was not until 2000 that GM vehicles were assembled again at General Motors (Thailand) in Thailand .
Models
Holden models and the Opel Rekord were produced . Very few vehicles were sold.
The BTV was also installed by General Motors, which was nicknamed Plai Noi (Little Elephant) in Thailand .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kōnosuke Odaka: The Motor Vehicle Industry in Asia: A Study of Ancillary Firm Development . NUS Press, Singapore 1983 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Louis F. Fourie: On a Global Mission: The Automobiles of General Motors International Volume 3, Volume 3 . FriesenPress, Victoria 2016 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Alex Miedema: Digital museum: General Motors BTV. In: alexmiedema.nl. December 16, 2017, accessed April 11, 2019 (Dutch).
- ^ United Nations Industrial Development Organization: The Manufacture of Low-cost Vehicles in Developing Countries , New York 1978.