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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
Nintendo started off making playing cards, that's why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]
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.
Silent movies with Chaplin?
Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.
The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.
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!
Business, ofc