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The BMW R75 is a global Warfare II-era motorcycle and sidecar combo made by the German company BMW.

Within the 1930s BMW were producing a range of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in respond to a question from the German Military.

Preproduction types of the R75 were powered with a 750 cc area valve engine, that was based on the R71 engine. However it was quickly found necessary to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine for the R75 device. This OHV engine later proved to be the foundation for following post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding fixed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road gear ratios through which all four and invert gears worked. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and capable of negotiating most surfaces. 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 extensively employed by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time of evaluation it became clear that the Z?ndapp was the superior machine. In August 1942 Z?ndapp and BMW, on the urging of the Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually building a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (specified the BW 43), when a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also agreed that the make of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 products, 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 was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturer was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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