The youngest BMW motorcycle in our Museum is a R 69S in Dover white, a change from the usual color of  black. In production from 1955 to 1964, this model used a 34 cu.in. engine a

While manufacturing planes during World War I as BFW, BMW and its partners started manufacturing motorcycle engines and then motorcycles in 1923, due to the Allied ban on the produ

A plane company banned from production in 1917 BFW (Bayerische Flugzeugwerke) started manufacturing four-stroke motorcycle engines, and began to manufacture motorcycles under the b

Established in 1917 by three companies, BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke: the Bavarian Engine Factory) reached its current form when one of the partners, BFW (Bayerische Flugzeugwerke

BMW failed to achieve the desired sales with its small Isetta and large 501-507 models introduced after the war. Following the company’s third financial crisis in 1959, sales soa

Starting to manufacture aircraft engines in 1911 and 4-cylinder water-cooled engines in 1915, the Bavarian automobile and motorcycle manufacturer, BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke) ex