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History of BMW. The official founding date of the German motor vehicle manufacturer BMW is 7 March 1916, when an aircraft producer called Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (formerly Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik) was established. [ 1][ 2] This company was renamed to Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1922. However, the BMW name dates back to 1917, when Rapp ...
109-006 Junkers/Heinkel 006. 109-007 Daimler-Benz 007. 109-011 Heinkel HeS 011, key late-war German development turbojet (only 19 examples built) 109-012 Junkers 012 – developed into the Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprop engine. 109-014 Argus As 014 pulsejet. 109-016 Daimler-Benz 016 turbojet. 109-018 BMW 018 turbojet.
This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system . The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used ...
In 1933 BMW started to develop bigger cars with 6-cylinder engines. The first car of which was the BMW 303. Later successors were the BMW 315, BMW 319, BMW 327 and the elegant sports coupe BMW 328. In 1942 BMW moved its motorcycle production to Eisenach, freeing up space in Munich for air craft engines. [2]
Asmus Nicolai Clausen. Ulrich Folkers. U-66. IXC. 20 March 1940. 200,021. 33. 9. Sunk 6 May 1944 by Grumman F4F Wildcats and Grumman TBF Avengers of USS Block Island, rammed by destroyer escort USS Buckley .
BMW Headquarters. / 48.17694°N 11.56000°E / 48.17694; 11.56000. The BMW Headquarters ( German: BMW-Vierzylinder, lit. 'BMW four-cylinder' ), also known as the BMW Tower (German: BMW-Turm or BMW-Hochhaus ), is a high-rise building located in the Am Riesenfeld area of Munich, Germany. The building has served as the global corporate ...
The list of Germany Navy ships includes all ships commissioned into German Navy service, since the reunification of Germany in 1990. See also: List of naval ships of Germany for naval ships which have served Germany throughout the country's history. List of German Navy ship classes; List of current German frigates
The BMW Central building is a 270,000-square-foot (25,000 m 2) facility that makes up only 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) of the 540-acre (2.2 km 2) campus [6]. Serving 5,500 employees, the building functions as the most important piece of the factory, connecting the three production sheds. Each day, 650 BMW 3 Series sedans [7] pass through ...