Cooper Corporation Pvt Ltd
Pune
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Office No 301/A, 3rd Floor,In 1934, the first diesel engine was manufactured, laying foundation of the automobile era and thus Sir D.B. Cooper became a pioneer of diesel engine manufacturing in India. He was a recipient of Knights of Garter - the oldest British order of Chivalry. In 1923, he took the lead to reduce the severe conditions of imprisonment imposed on Veer Savarkar during his imprisonment at Ratnagiri by the then British Government. Considering his contribution during the years 1920 to 1947, he emerged as an Idol Parsi, who walked few steps ahead of his time. He was a visionary, reformer and philanthropist in industry, education and agriculture. In the biographies of Seth Walchand Hirachand, Prabhodhankar Thackeray, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and Yashwantrao Chavan, there are references to Sir Dhanjisha Cooper.
Cooper Corporation Pvt Ltd the eve of the Ganesh Chaturthi, in 1922, Satara Industrial Work started its functioning on Satara Road and started manufacturing of agriculture ploughs, sugarcane crushers and other equipment. The name of the company was changed to Cooper Engineering works in 1928. Sir Dhanjisha foresaw the need of experts to start the business, and appointed foreigners as employees like A Gardner for machine shop, Drowning, W H Moore and William H Moore for foundry, Hamprey Rey for diesel engines and Fether and A J Lund as managers. Sir Dhanjisha had a knack of knowing people and their potential. Vasudev Band and Dattaray Bhagwat were the early employees of the company who worked hard to make the business a great success.
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