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[–] [email protected] 123 points 3 weeks ago (19 children)

Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed .... which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it's the image of a spinning propeller

Just don't ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.

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