It became a leading tyre manufacturing company, and is a key predecessor to Uniroyal in Europe.
In 1929, Englebert set up a second tyre plant just across the border at Aachen-Rothe Erde in Germany.
After the war, in 1958, the company entered into a partnership agreement with Uniroyal,[3] then one of the world's top three tyre manufacturers.
In 1979 Uniroyal sold its European business which was integrated into the Continental Tyre Company.
[4] Englebert started in Formula One at the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, with French Simca-Gordini drivers Robert Manzon and Maurice Trintignant.