Famous automobile logos and their hidden meaning
BMW - Aircraft propeller or Bavarian flag?
August 23, 2015, 19:18 ISTInside white and blue, bordered in black with the letters BMW is the most recognisable logo all over the world.
BMW started with aircraft engines, then automobiles and motorbikes. People think the BMW logo is based on a rotating air screw of the aircraft engine. But that is not the case. Back in the day, BMW wanted to use the colours of the Bavarian Free State in their logo, but doing so was illegal, so they reversed the colours and accidentally created the propeller design.
BMW r32, introduced in 1923, is the first motorbike with the BMW logo on the road. In 1918, the logo appeared for the very first time in a printed publication. The first BMW automobile to carry the logo was 315 PS.
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