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C31. ARTICLE: Automatic Binding Bricks, The LEGO Group, .

In the late 1940s, Ole Kirk Kristiansen and son Godtfred Kirk are presented with plastic cubes from a British manufacturer. They begin redesigning the cubes and in 1949; the company launches its first building set: Automatic Binding Bricks.

Automatic Binding Bricks (the tubeless precursor to the modern LEGO Brick) launched in 1949.