BMW company
BMW (Bayerische Motoren. Werke ) This car company that specializes in the production of motorcycles, cars, sports cars, all-terrain vehicles. July 20, 1917 is registered under the name Bayerische Motoren Werke ( «Bavarian motor factories» ) - BMW. This date is considered to be the founding date of the BMW, and Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto by its founders. Chairman of the company today is HARALD KRÜGER , as chief designer - Karim Habib.
After the First World War the company was on the verge of collapse, as the Treaty of Versailles forbade Germans to produce engines for aircraft, namely engines at the time were the only BMW products. But entrepreneurial Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto find a way out - the plant have shifted to production of first motorcycle engines and then motorcycles themselves. In 1923 with the BMW plant goes first motorcycle R 32. On motosalone 1923 in Paris, this first BMW motorcycle immediately won a reputation for fast and reliable machine.
The head office is situated in Munich. Major production facilities are concentrated in Germany (Dingolfing, Regensburg, Leipzig, Munich) and USA (Spartanburg). Also, cars are going to factories in Thailand, Malaysia, India, Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam. In Russia, BMW cars assembled in Kaliningrad (Avtotor).
Сompany logo In September 1917, the emblem of the company was approved: a stylized rotating propeller, later for clarity was replaced by a circle of four sectors: two white meant rotating blades, and two blue - sky shines through them.
