TIMELINE: India's Tata Motors: from trains to trucks to Nano

(Reuters) - India's Tata Motors will on Monday launch the Nano, the "People's Car", which it unveiled last January as the world's cheapest car with a dealer price of 100,000 rupees ($1,914).

Following are some key events from Tata Motors' history:

1945 - Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co Ltd (TELCO) set up as a locomotive maker at the end of World War Two

1954 - Company shifts to making trucks in a joint venture with Germany's Daimler Benz

1977 - Commences production of commercial vehicles

1994 - Enters venture with Daimler to make Mercedes Benz cars in India

1998 - Launches fully indigenous passenger car, the Indica

2001 - Ends joint venture with Daimler

2002 - TELCO renamed Tata Motors Ltd

2003 - Announces plan to build world's cheapest car, to sell for 100,000 rupees

2004 - Acquires South Korea's Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Co, and lists on the New York Stock Exchange. Launches Indigo sedan

2005 - Buys 21 percent stake in Spanish bus maker Hispano Carrocera SA, launches mini-truck Ace in India

2006 - Signs manufacturing and distribution agreement with Fiat, enters venture with Brazilian bus maker Marcopolo

2008 - Unveils the Nano at Delhi Auto Expo

- Buys Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor Co for $2.3 billion

Sources: Reuters; www.tatamotors.com

(Compiled by Rina Chandran; Editing by Lincoln Feast)