 Later the work was taken over by the managing agents who virtually controlled and ran the company.Sir Shri Ram appears on the scene first in 1905 (at the age of 21 years) when he attended an Annual General Meeting along with his uncle (Lala Gopal Rai, Founder and First Secretary of Delhi Cloth and General Mills).The uncle died the same year and Shri Ram's father, Madan Mohan Lal, was appointed in his place.