Did Bmw Make Tanks Ww2. Eventually one of the world s first jet the heinkel he 162 had a bmw engine. The most important line of business was truck production whilst passenger car manufacture.
We were treated terribly and had to drink water from the toilets. Before the company made high end motorcycles and cars it powered some of germany s preeminent fighter airplanes as far back as world war i. In the summer of 1941 the daimler benz ag board of management chaired by wilhelm kissel no longer envisaged a swift end to the war or an imminent return to producing civilian vehicles.
The bmw 801 was a powerful german 41 8 litre 2 550 cu in air cooled 14 cylinder radial aircraft engine built by bmw and used in a number of german luftwaffe aircraft of world war ii production versions of the twin row engine generated between 1 560 and 2 000 ps 1 540 1 970 hp or 1 150 1 470 kw it was the most produced radial engine of germany in world war ii with more than 61 000 built.
Before the company made high end motorcycles and cars it powered some of germany s preeminent fighter airplanes as far back as world war i. Daimler and bmw found that when audi was operating under the name auto union it struck a deal with the ss. During the third reich quandt company empire was kept running by more than 50 000 slave laborers. Bmw s origins can be traced back to three separate german companies.
