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

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

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

The 3rd side-car wheel was powered with an axle connected to the trunk wheel of the motorcycle. These were installed with a locking differential and selectable road and off-road gear ratios through which all and change gears proved helpful. 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 own rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely utilized by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though after a period 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 upon 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 decided that the make of the R75 would cease once production come to 20,200 devices, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 every year.

Since the goal of 20,200 BMW R75's had not been reached, it remained in production before Eisenach stock was so badly damaged by Allied bombing that development ceased in 1944. A further 98 systems were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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