BMW Boxer origin?

[Big Dave]

And there is what we can read on Wikipedia, which is generally more than what any of us already know.

So you're going to say, "BMW produced their first boxer twin the 1920s"?

refer wikipedantry :-P

'BMW Megamoto. A minimalist machine without any bells and whistles and a configuration dating back to the 1920’s, '

[Oscar]

refer wikipedantry :-P

'BMW Megamoto. A minimalist machine without any bells and whistles and a configuration dating back to the 1920’s, '

That pretty much sums up their entire product line.
BMW GS1200. A minimalist machine without any power and handling and a configuration dating back to the 1920’s

[Pedrostt500]

I understood that BMW built air craft engines for the first World War.

[Big Dave]

[Bonez]

I understood that BMW built air craft engines for the first World War.

And the one after that.

[Badjelly]

You saved yourself a lot of time by getting us to do your homework, didn't you BD?

[Big Dave]

Remember - you are either part of the solution - or you are the precipitate.

[vifferman]

Remember - you are either part of the solution - or you are the precipitate.

You remembered your high school chem?

[Big Dave]

You remembered your high school chem?

Mid life puns.

[Forest]

Actually, if you read the Wikipedia article carefully...

The first "boxer" engine, M2B15, was based on a British Douglas design. It was manufactured by BMW but mostly used in other brands of motorcycles, notably Victoria of Nuremberg. The M2B15 proved to be moderately successful and BMW used it in its own Helios motorcycle. ... However with the development of its first light alloy cylinder head, a second more successful version of the boxer engine evolved. In 1923, the first BMW branded motorcycle, the R32, was produced.

...they manufactured a boxer engine, the M2B15, some time before 1923.

The M2B15 was an aero engine. Viktoria used it in a couple of bikes from around 1920 onwards, but the R32 was the first BMW bike that had a horizontally opposed engine.

[cs363]

Imagine what Das Publisher would make of this:

Stop fishing Oscar, you already knew the answer to that one - as anyone that knows that particular chap would.
BMW + Sidecar + Heavy Machinegun + 'das Publisher' = well, lets just say that I think Big Dave's reply was ........'ahem' .......understated!

[T.W.R]

The M2B15 was an aero engine. Viktoria used it in a couple of bikes from around 1920 onwards, but the R32 was the first BMW bike that had a horizontally opposed engine.

The BMW factory when it started 1916 in Munich was building aircraft engines, then in 1921 the M2B15 was produced as a proprietary engine and supplied to Victoria, SMW, Bison, SBD and other smaller companies and the Helios which in 1922 was built at the BMW factory.

[Motu]

And their first boxer twin was fore and aft like a Douglas,it was flipped around later.

[Voltaire]

I understood that BMW built air craft engines for the first World War.

The BMW roundel is the view from a pilots cockpit, blue sky against a rotating propeller.
They also made jet engines for WW2 bomber that didn't quite make it to production, probably as they would need to have made the badge just white.
The bikes lost something when the badge became a sticker.
BMW also started making cars....Austin 7's under licence.

Read this in a book once....remember books?

[fliplid]

books...er, papery things with wordy things on em...?