 The company popularly known as Gujarat Tractors and its popular 60 hp model Hindustan 60 was established in 1959 as Tractors and Bulldozers Private Ltd and imported tractors.Manufacturing began in 1963, in collaboration Motokov-Praha (Zetor) of Czechoslovakia, and was known as Hindustan Tractors & Bulldozers Ltd.In 1967, it became Hindustan Tractors Ltd.