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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (info) (BMW), (English: Bavarian Motor Works) is a German automobile, motorcycle and abettor adeptness accretion founded in 1916. It additionally owns and produces the MINI brand, and is the anterior accretion of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles beneath BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands. BMW is acclimatized for its ability and affluence vehicles.
After World War I, BMW was afflicted to cease aircraft (engine) accretion by the acceding of the Versailles Armistice Treaty.[2] The accretion appropriately ashamed to motorcycle accretion in 1923 already the restrictions of the accordance started to be lifted,[3] followed by automobiles in 1928-29.

The annular base and white BMW logo or roundel is portrayed by BMW as the movement of an aircraft propeller, to acquaint the white blades acerbic through the base sky – an account that BMW adopted for accessibility in 1929, twelve years afterwards the roundel was created.[7][8] The adumbration acquired from the annular Rapp Motorenwerke accretion logo, from which the BMW accretion grew, accumulated with the white and base colors of the banderole of Bavaria, adverse to after-effects the BMW roundel. However, the abettor of the logo accomplishment based on the movement of a ballista is in dispute, according to an commodity afresh acclimatize by the New York times, acclamation “At the BMW Museum in Munich, Anne Schmidt-Possiwal, explained that the blue-and-white accretion logo did not represent a spinning propeller, but was meant to accomplishment the colors of the Free State of Bavaria.” [9]

BMW’s age-old cogent aircraft abettor was the BMW IIIa inline-six liquid-cooled abettor of 1918, abounding adopted for its high-altitude performance.[10] With German rearmament in the 1930s, the accretion afresh began abode aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe. Among its acclimatized WWII abettor designs were the BMW 132 and BMW 801 air-cooled ambrosial engines, and the beat BMW 003 axial-flow turbojet, which powered the tiny, 1944-45-era jet-powered “emergency fighter”, the Heinkel He 162 Salamander. The BMW 003 jet abettor was activated in the A-1b acclimation of the world’s age-old jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, but BMW engines bootless on takeoff, a aloft setback for the jet fighter address until acclimatized testing with Junkers engines
Nazi connections

Günther Quandt, whose ancestors became aloft shareholders of BMW 15 years afterwards the war, was a accessory of the Nazi Party from 1933. Afterwards the acclamation of Hitler, he was appointed to the position of Leader of the Armament Economy, which was a appellation acclimatized to industrialists who played a able role in the Nazi war economy. Quandt’s factories supplied ammunition, rifles, accoutrements and batteries for the Nazis and, it is claimed, acclimated bondman labourers from assimilation camps in some of his factories.
In 2006, BMW produced 1,366,838 four-wheeled vehicles, which were bogus in bristles countries.[17] In 2009, it bogus 1,258,417 four-wheeled vehicles.[1] In 2009, BMW Motorrad produced 82,631 motorcycles.