Bmw r75 Sixth Army Group

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

Inside the 1930s BMW were creating a volume of popular and highly effective motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 were only available in response to a demand from the German Army.

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was driven with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. These were equipped with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios by which all four and reverse gears proved helpful. This made the R75 highly manoeuvrable and with the capacity of negotiating most surfaces. 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 generally used 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 Military, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen 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 manufacture of the R75 would stop once production reached 20,200 systems, and after that point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, making 20,000 each year.

Since the concentrate on of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly destroyed by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. An additional 98 models were put together by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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