bmwr75withsidecarandammunitiontrailerissuedin1940ther75

The BMW R75 is a global Battle II-era motorcycle and sidecar blend produced by the German company BMW.

In the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in respond to a need from the German Military.

Preproduction models of the R75 were run by way of a 750 cc side valve engine, which was based on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine later became the basis for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were installed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios through which all and reverse gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most areas. Additional motorcycle manufactures, like FN and Norton, provided an optional drive to sidecars.

The BMW R75 and its rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both broadly utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period of analysis it became clear that the Z?ndapp was the superior machine. In August 1942 Z?ndapp and BMW, on the urging of the Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually setting up a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the make of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 systems, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so terribly broken by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 items were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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