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

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

Preproduction models of the R75 were driven by a 750 cc part valve engine, that was predicated on the R71 engine motor. Nonetheless it was quickly found essential to design an all-new OHV 750 cc engine motor for the R75 device. This OHV engine unit later became the basis for subsequent post-war twin BMW engines like the R51/3, R67 and R68.

The third side-car wheel was driven with an axle connected to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. We were holding installed with a locking differential and selectable highway and off-road products ratios by which all four and reverse gears worked. 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 rival the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both widely used 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 Army, agreed after standardization of parts for both machines, with a view of eventually developing a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (designated the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. In addition they agreed that the production of the R75 would cease once production reached 20,200 systems, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, developing 20,000 each year.

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

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