Destruction and Reconstruction
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1943 Patent application filed for tubeless tires. |
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1945 Heavy bomb damage to the plants in Hanover-Vahrenwald and Korbach. The British military government grants permission as early as June 14, 1945 for the Hanover factories to resume production. |
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1951-55 Collaboration with Daimler-Benz and Porsche helps Continental repeats its pre-war successes on the track. Racecar drivers like Karl Kling, Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio win the 1952 Carrera Panamericana and the French, British, Dutch and Italian Grand Prix in race cars fitted with Continental tires. |
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1951 Production of steel cable conveyor belts starts. |
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1952 Continental adds M+S tires for winter driving to its range of conventional tires. |
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