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BMWBMW, acronym of Bayerische Motoren-Werke (Bavarian motor works), is a German company and manufacturer of quality automobiles and motorcycles .
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In 1916 the company secured a contract to build V12 engines for Austria-Hungary. Needing extra finance, Rapp gained the support of Camillo Castiglioni and Max Friz, the company was reconstituted as the Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH. Over-expansion caused difficulties, Rapp left and the company was taken over by the Austrian industrialist Franz Josef Popp[?] in 1917, and named BMW AG from 1918.
In 1927 the tiny Dixi[?], an Austin Seven[?] produced under license, began production in Eisenach. BMW bought the company the following year, and this became the company's first car, the BMW 3/15[?]. By 1933 BMW were producing cars that could be called truly theirs, offering steadily more advanced 6-cylinder sports and saloon cars. The pre-war cars culminated in the beautiful 327[?] saloon and 328 roadster[?], fast 2-litre cars, both very advanced for their time.
The BMW works were heavily bombed towards the end of the war. Of its sites, those in eastern Germany (Eisenach, Dürrerhof, Basdorf and Zühlsdorf) were seized by the Soviets. The factory in Munich was largely destroyed.
In the east, the company's factory at Eisenach was taken over by the state-owned Awtowelo[?] group. That company offered "BMW"s for sale until 1951, when the Bavarian company prevented use of the trademarks: the name, the logo and the "double-kidney" radiator grille[?].
The cars were then branded EMW[?] (Eisenacher Motoren Werke), production continuing until 1955.
In the west, the BAC, Bristol Aeroplane Company, inspected the factory, and returned to England with plans for the 326, 327 and 328 models. These plans, which became official war reparations, along with BMW engineer Fritz Fiedler[?] allowed the newly formed Bristol Cars to produce a new, high-quality sports saloon, the 400[?] by 1947, a car so similar to the BMW 327 that it even kept the famous BMW grille.
Classics
Sedans
Sports Cars/M-Series
All-Wheel Drive
Final drive was by shaft.
Essentially, the same basic design is still manufactured by the company today.
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doctrine of my childhood's days, the vicarious atonement as taught then, is
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