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The 1940s

Category: Chronological Archive
Description: The Second World War shuts down most of the automobile industry as either as factories are caught in combat areas or converted to war production. One notable exception is the invention of the Jeep. After the war, automakers retool and rebuild to meet pent-up demand with mostly prewar engineering as they apply the lessons learned in the first half of the decade to a new generation of automobiles that will usher in the 1950s. Following the break for the war, the restarting of motorsports lays the foundation for the state of racing as it exists today: Tony Hulman would buy and rebiuld the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, NASCAR would be founded in a small motel in Daytona Beach, and Formula 1 would be defined as a racing class although the first official F1 championship wouldn't take place until 1950.
Page Sections: Publications · Articles

Publications

Nineteen Forty
Periodicals (288 pages · 12 issues) Patents (2 pages · 1 patent) Litigation (1 page · 1 document)
Nineteen Forty-One
Books (333 pages · 1 book) Periodicals (326 pages · 12 issues)
Nineteen Forty-Two
Books (392 pages · 2 books) Periodicals (220 pages · 8 issues) Other (32 pages · 12 documents)
Nineteen Forty-Three
Periodicals (146 pages · 4 issues) Litigation (1 page · 1 document) Other (279 pages · 13 documents)
Nineteen Forty-Four
Periodicals (108 pages · 4 issues) Litigation (1 page · 1 document) Other (167 pages · 13 documents)
Nineteen Forty-Five
Periodicals (132 pages · 4 issues) Litigation (1 page · 1 document) Other (228 pages · 13 documents)
Nineteen Forty-Six
Periodicals (104 pages · 4 issues) Litigation (2 pages · 2 documents) Other (244 pages · 14 documents)
Nineteen Forty-Seven
Periodicals (94 pages · 4 issues) Litigation (1 page · 1 document) Other (366 pages · 16 documents)
Nineteen Forty-Eight
Periodicals (104 pages · 4 issues) Litigation (1 page · 1 document) Other (298 pages · 15 documents)
Nineteen Forty-Nine
Books (82 pages · 1 book) Periodicals (172 pages · 5 issues) Patents (8 pages · 3 patents) Other (378 pages · 16 documents)


Articles

1940 (1 article) 1941 (1 article) 1942 (1 article) 1943 (1 article) 1944 (1 article)
1945 (1 article) 1946 (2 articles) 1947 (3 articles) 1948 (1 article) 1949 (2 articles)

1940s
Home page banner image: from the cover of the 1949 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book.




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