And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
I hear tell the BMW logo is a stylized spinning propeller
Conveniently it incorporates the official colors of the Bavarian state, blue and white. Wether the propellor logo is true or not, I can't say but, I like the Art Deco style it invokes.
Decades ago, when I purchased my one and only BMW automobile, I read in some of the accompanying paperwork that the logo is in fact a spinning airplane propeller. I forget the reason that they chose it but it's a fact.
Bayerische Flugzeugwerke engines powered the Fokker D.VII. After the war it became Bayerische MotorenWerke and made its first motorcycle in '23. I have seen a print ad showing how the logo evolved from a propeller. Al_in_Ottawa
it is a circle cut out of the Bavarian flag. Baerische Motoren Werke - Bavarian Motor Works
ReplyDeleteConveniently it incorporates the official colors of the Bavarian state, blue and white. Wether the propellor logo is true or not, I can't say but, I like the Art Deco style it invokes.
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They did build the engine for the Focke Wolfe FW-190, so the prop makes some sense.
ReplyDeleteversion I heard is that the logo originates with BMW startup in design/manufacture of aircraft engines. Rest, you might say, is history.
ReplyDeleteOld time BMW tech here. They told us at BMW school that it was a stylized spinning propeller.
ReplyDeleteThey used a strobe light shining on a spinning propeller to get the image.
ReplyDeleteDecades ago, when I purchased my one and only BMW automobile, I read in some of the accompanying paperwork that the logo is in fact a spinning airplane propeller. I forget the reason that they chose it but it's a fact.
ReplyDeleteBayerische Flugzeugwerke engines powered the Fokker D.VII. After the war it became Bayerische MotorenWerke and made its first motorcycle in '23. I have seen a print ad showing how the logo evolved from a propeller.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Hermann Göring at the bars.
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