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

In the 1930s BMW were producing a quantity of popular and impressive motorcycles. In 1938 development of the R75 started in response to a request from the German Army.

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

The third side-car wheel was influenced with an axle linked to the rear wheel of the motorcycle. They were fitted with a locking differential and selectable street and off-road items ratios by which all four and invert gears functioned. 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 own competitor the Z?ndapp KS 750 were both generally employed by the Wehrmacht in Russia and North Africa, though over time of analysis 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 creating a Z?ndapp-BMW hybrid (chosen the BW 43), in which a BMW 286/1 side-car would be grafted onto a Z?ndapp KS 750 motorcycle. They also arranged that the manufacture of the R75 would stop once production come to 20,200 units, and from then on point BMW and Z?ndapp would only produce the Z?ndapp-BMW machine, processing 20,000 each year.

Since the aim for of 20,200 BMW R75's was not reached, it continued to be in production until the Eisenach manufacturing plant was so badly ruined by Allied bombing that production ceased in 1944. A further 98 units were built by the Soviets in 1946 as reparations.

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