Captain Kirpa Ram, who was the owner of Savoy Hotel had great faith in Shri Nathji as a great spiritual leader. He used to facilitate in celebrating the fuctions which Shri Nathji held at Savoy Hotel and he also allowed him to keep his Ford car in the Savoy Hotel car sheds, free of charge. The Ford Car was still a novelty at Mussoorie ib thse times and Captain Kirpa Ram requested Shri Nathji to lend him the car for a day so that he could try it out.
Rai Bahadur Captain Kirpa Ram Jauhar was a businessman from Rawalpindi. He purchased the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie in 1946 from Cecil D. Lincoln for a sum significantly lower than its pre-war value. This followed the property market crash after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1946. Captain Kirpa Ram is best remembered in Mussoorie for organising the Labour Union in the hill station and letting the rickshaw pullers park their rickshaws before they went home.
His son, Anand Kumar Jauhar, later took over the management of the Savoy hotel in the 1960s. The property was later sold in 2005. The property was later sold in 2005 to R P Singh, a Kanpur-based industrialist who futher sold it In July 2009, to ITC Hotels.
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