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30 April - 1 May 1955
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In the Mille Miglia, the legendary thousand-mile race from Brescia to Rome and back, Mercedes-Benz scores a one-two win with the new 300 SLR racing sports car. The driver team of Stirling Moss/Denis Jenkison wins, posting a new course record and an average speed of 157.6 km/h. Juan Manuel Fangio, who competes in the gruelling road race alone, comes home second. John Fitch/Kurt Gesll win the GT category in a 300 SL production sports car and take fifth place overall; winner in the diesel category is the driver team of Helmut Retter/Wolfgang Larcher in a 180 D.
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29 May 1955
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The International Eifel Race on the Nürburgring is the scene of another one-two win in the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR: Juan Manuel Fangio wins the race and Stirling Moss finishes second. At the Swedish Grand Prix in Kristianstad on 7 August, Fangio and Moss repeat this feat in their 300 SLR racing sports cars.
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18 July 1955
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At the Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Daimler-Benz AG, Hermann J. Abs is elected successor to the retiring Supervisory Board Chairman Hans Rummel. At this Annual Shareholders' Meeting the Flick Group holding company announces that it holds 25 % of the Daimler-Benz share capital. Deutsche Bank also holds 25 %, and the Quandt Group 3.5 % of the shares.
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17 September 1955
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In the Tourist Trophy race on the Dundrod circuit in Northern Irleand, the 300 SLR racing sports cars score a triple victory. The driver team Stirling Moss/John Fitch wins the race, with Juan Manuel Fangio/Karl Kling and Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips/André Simon coming in second and third respectively.
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22 September - 2 October 1955
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The L 319, Mercedes-Benz's first post-war van, is unveiled at the Frankfurt International Motor Show. Also celebrating premieres are the convertible of the six-cylinder model 220 (W 180), which comes on the market in July 1956 as the 220 S Convertible, and the coupé version of the 190 SL with removable hardtop. Other show firsts are a further development of the "Adenauer Mercedes" with Borg-Warner automatic transmission (internal designation 300 c, W 186) and a revised version of the 300 S with petrol injection (internal designation 300 Sc, W 188). As part of the improvements both models are equipped with a single-joint swing axle, as are the 180 and 180 D (W 120).
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16 October 1955
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The Targa Florio, the gruelling road race on the Madonie circuit in Sicily, puts the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR racing sports car to the acid test. In the last race, which counts towards the constructors' rankings in the 1955 Sports Car World Championship, Stirling Moss/Peter Collins and Juan Manuel Fangio/Karl Kling take the first two places in a dramatic race and secure the title with a mere one-point lead over Ferrari.
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