Logo Lore

[HipGnosis]

From http://www.consumerguideauto.howstuffworks.com/logo-land.htm;

BMW’s circular emblem (roundel), with its two white quadrants and two blue quadrants, has nothing to do with automobiles. Before BMW began building cars, it manufactured engines for airplanes. The logo represents a white propeller spinning in a blue sky.

[Cablebandit]

I thought this was common knowledge.

[Rincewind]

When I see boxer twin engines I imagine a propeller sticking on the front of the bike.*







*I don't believe the boxer twins were actually used or developed for aircraft engines.  

[Cablebandit]

They were wise to use a non-BMW final drive.  

[DogBoy]

Sign at the BMW museum:

[Blunder]

Blue and white are the Bavarian flag's colors.

[miles]

Blue and white are the Bavarian flag's colors.

This is true.  The propellor thing, although a popular belief, is not historically correct.


http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/bmw-roundel-not-born-from-planes/

[Rincewind]

Interesting info!

The circular blue and white BMW logo or roundel is portrayed by BMW as the movement of an aircraft propeller, to signify the white blades cutting through the blue sky – an interpretation that BMW adopted for convenience in 1929, twelve years after the roundel was created.[8][9] The emblem evolved from the circular Rapp Motorenwerke company logo, from which the BMW company grew, combined with the blue and white colours of the flag of Bavaria, reversed to produce the BMW roundel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW


Download full history article @ http://www.bmwrocketscience.com/upload/roundel-myth.pdf -- "There isn’t a shred of evidence for the “propeller interpretation” prior to 1929."

[DogBoy]

So why does BMW refer to the logo as a propeller in their own museum? The sign doesn't say "the legendary colors for the state of Bavaria". (Or "Bawawia" if you are Lili Von Shtupp)

[miles]

So why does BMW refer to the logo as a propeller in their own museum? The sign doesn't say "the legendary colors for the state of Bavaria". (Or "Bawawia" if you are Lili Von Shtupp)

They had it wrong.  Read the article Rince linked.

[DogBoy]

I was just trying to work in the Lili Von Shtupp reference.

[miles]

I was just trying to work in the Lili Von Shtupp reference.

Always a good one, all right.  HArdly a day goes by that I don't "Whip this out", or something along those lines.

[Blunder]

Jumping to conclusions and always too soon.

[sagerat]

"Is it twue what zey say about you peeple?"

Zip.

"It's twue; it's twue!"