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Originally Posted by gustavo Than you have to mention it in your statement. Otherwise people think only MB usesd slave workers. |
Well, sorry, I tough everybody knew that all major german corporations (Siemens, Bosch, Hugo Boss, DB AG, VW AG, BMW and so on) all used slave workers.
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LOL, to build a plain sportscar was better done by the Brits.
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That's just stupid. The 328 was not a plain sport car.
Bristol, Fraser-Nash, Lotus, Cooper, Healey, AC, Jaguar were all influenced by the 328 (they used it's cloned engine and or suspentions and/or copied/were influnced by its body, used some of its technological solutions).
Compared to what happened to BMW and Auto Union that was almost nothing. Read Beemerboi's reply.
While BMW was producing also cooking pots, MB started four years before BMW to produce cars. Not a big time lead IMHO.
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To sum up: Your conclusion, MB got big advantages toward BMW after WW II , is not as much as the original author want to believe.
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Why that's just your take on it.
Here is a quote from beemer boi
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think you wrong about there being 'no misfortune' at BMW. Simple vist the BMWGroup website and look at the history of the company (Click HERE for a Link to the site ). Here's just a few key points:
- The Munich plant sustained serious damage in air raids from 1944 on.
- In mid-1945, BMW was granted permission to carry out repairs of US army vehicles, and in return were allowed to manufacture spare parts, agricultural equipment and bicycles. They were also authorised to build motorcycles again, but was as yet not in a position to do so.
- October 1945: US military government ordered the BMW plants in Munich and Allach be dismantled, with intact machinery being dismantled and shipped all over the world by the way of reparations.
As for whether BMW managers thought about selling off the company to MB, that is completely false. BMW were starting to establish themselves by the 1950's with the success of their motorcycles. It was at the end of 1959 that Daimler-Benz made an offer, but BMW's small number of shareholder and also their workforce rejected this offer and continued to stay independent under Herbert Quandt's leadership and control.
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