New Paper Craft: WWII BMW R75 Motorcycle and Sidecar Free Paper Models

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were producing a amount of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in reaction to a need from the German Army.

Preproduction types of the R75 were power by the 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 unit. This OHV engine motor later proved to be the foundation for succeeding post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was powered with an axle linked to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. They were built in with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road equipment ratios by which all four and reverse gears functioned. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most floors. A few other 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 generally employed 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 (designated the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they arranged that the make of the R75 would stop once production come to 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 target of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it continued to be in production before Eisenach manufacturer was so badly broken by Allied bombing that creation ceased in 1944. A further 98 devices were set up by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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