M5POWER
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Have you really ever wondered what's the secret behind the BMW roundel? Some say it's an aircraft propeler and some says it's a Bayern flag. Some even say it's both... I've done a little research and found these interesting images and infos:The BMW Roundel, was inspired within these 3 elements of Bavarian Flag, the logo of the Bayern Football club and the aircraft propeler.
BMWism.com]1929; An artistic vision of an inspiration behind the BMW roundel. A drawing executed for the BMW advert from 1929 said:Document of the registration of the BMW roundel in the Germany's Imperial Trademark Roll. It has been registered on December 10, 1917 under the number: 221388. This is the first known printed usage of the logo.
Bayerische Flugzeug-Werke (Bavarian Arircraft Works) was created on March 7, 1916. The company uses the letters BFW as a short form of its name. First roundels are in use, still without the letters at the top.Bayerische Motoren Werke G.m.b.H. was created in 1917 and transformed in March of 1918 into the public company BMW AG. Originally the aircraft engine company, while as a result of the Treaty of Versaille (June of 1919) Germany was not allowed to produce the airplanes, BMW stepped into the production of engines for boats and agriculture and later producing motorycles and cars.One of the first uses of the BMW logo in a BMW engines advert from 1919.
[Source = BMWism.com]
