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BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed .... which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it's the image of a spinning propeller
Just don't ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945
Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.
Nintendo started off making playing cards, that's why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]
Business, ofc
The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.
Silent movies with Chaplin?
This is a misconception. The chequered blue and white is part of a Bavarian flag, but due to some legal issues they had to straighten it.
I think it's also a reference to the bavarian flag.
Yes .... and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works ... its actually 'Bayerische Motoren Werke'
Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.
God damit! .... I was right all along ... just in the wrong language!