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[[BMW]]'s factory at Eisenach ended up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain after WW2 but rather than strip it bare - their usual treatment of valuable German assets - the occupying Russians chose to restart production of pre-war designs. Both cars and motorcycles were made bearing BMW's distinctive blue and white quartered emblem until a successful legal action in 1950 saw the Munich firm successfully reassert its rights to the trademark. As a result the Eastern Bloc offshoot adopted the name 'EMW' (Eisenacher Motoren Werke) and changed the blue sections of its badge to red. EMW only built one type of motorcycle, the [[BMW R35|R35]], which was based on the BMW of the same name produced between 1937 and 1940. Updated with plunger rear suspension, the EMW R35 remained in production into the early 1950s. | [[BMW]]'s factory at Eisenach ended up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain after WW2 but rather than strip it bare - their usual treatment of valuable German assets - the occupying Russians chose to restart production of pre-war designs. Both cars and motorcycles were made bearing BMW's distinctive blue and white quartered emblem until a successful legal action in 1950 saw the Munich firm successfully reassert its rights to the trademark. As a result the Eastern Bloc offshoot adopted the name 'EMW' (Eisenacher Motoren Werke) and changed the blue sections of its badge to red. EMW only built one type of motorcycle, the [[BMW R35|R35]], which was based on the BMW of the same name produced between 1937 and 1940. Updated with plunger rear suspension, the EMW R35 remained in production into the early 1950s. | ||
[[Category:Motorcycle manufacturers]] | [[Category:Motorcycle manufacturers]] | ||
[[Category:BMW]] | [[Category:BMW]] | ||