HISTORY OF BMW Many of the popular auto manufacturers we know today got their start manufacturing other sorts of engines, and BMW is no different. Opened in 1913 as Rapp Motorenwerke (Motorworks) in a former bicycle factory, the company originally manufactured airplane engines. After World War I, and the treaty of Versailles, German manufacturers were required to cease construction of planes, and the company changed gears, and began building motorcycles instead. BMW 1920s and 1930s In 1928, eight years after the shift from airplanes to motorbikes,...
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