Siemens: Still going strong in India

Nearly a century-and-half after constructing the London-Calcutta telegraph line, the German engineering giant is still going strong in India.

Siemens employees at its Kalwa plant in 1967. The company now employs nearly 20,000 people

Bernhard Plettner (third from right), then President and CEO of Siemens AG, visiting the Kalwa factory in November 1972

Siemens supplied a turbogenerator to Tata Iron & Steel Co in 1910

Siemens's Express Delivery service where mechanics on cycles went around repairing electrical equipment in the late 1960s

Express service of Siemens India