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guess the company (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think it's also a reference to the bavarian flag.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes .... and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works ... its actually 'Bayerische Motoren Werke'

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

German for Bavarian Motor Works

God damit! .... I was right all along ... just in the wrong language!

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