On Jul 31, 3:36*am, "JimT" wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

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A Beemer is a BMW motorcycle. The BMW car is called a Bimmer.
http://www.bmwccbc.org/misc/tech-and-trivia/bimmer.html

Whatever....they were built by Nazis. I wouldn't own one.

from Wiki:

Nazi connections
Günther Quandt, whose family became major shareholders of BMW 15 years after
the war, was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933. After the election of
Hitler, he was appointed to the position of Leader of the Armament Economy,
which was a title given to industrialists who played a leading role in the
Nazi war economy. Quandt's factories supplied ammunition, rifles, artillery
and batteries for the Nazis and, it is claimed, used slave labourers from
concentration camps in some of his factories.[14]
A documentary aired on German TV in 2007 claimed that Quandt not only used
slave labour, but also sidestepped postwar recrimination. BMW itself was not
implicated in the documentary, and the firm has made no comment about the
Quandts, but claims to have confronted its own wartime history via
independent research projects.[14] The Quandt family responded by pledging
to fund a research project into the family's Nazi past and its role under
the Third Reich.[15]
Former Danish freedom fighter Carl Adolf Sørensen (b. ca. 1927) has been
asked to meet with the Quandt family and possibly receive compensation, but
has repeatedly refused to do so on the grounds that it is too late. In 1943,
as a 17-year-old, he and 39 other resistance fighters were sent to Germany
where they worked with dangerous chemicals, some dying within a few months,
and only four of the group were still alive as of May 2009.[16]

BMW is Bayern Motor Werk. They made aircraft engines in WW2. The BMW
motiff represents a spinning propellor.