"If our troops want to achieve mobility, the previous bicycles must be eliminated, so we must vigorously develop military motorcycles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Looking at the neat factory and the workers in charge of assembly on the production line, Ciric said to the people around him.

Here, it is the famous BMW company in the future!

Germany's craftsmanship spirit is not in vain, it can be found that many of the world's famous automobile manufacturers are German! At the same time, many famous figures were also born.

Gothrieb-Daimler and Carl Benz, for example, founded Mercedes and Mercedes-Benz respectively, and recently merged into one company. And Auguste Horch is the founder of Audi's predecessor Auto Alliance, Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the famous Porsche company.

However, BMW, which is also one of the three major luxury brands, rarely mentions its pioneers.

If you studied thermodynamics in college, you will know the "Otto cycle", which is the most common form of the internal combustion engine cycle. And this Otto is the name of the person, the name of the founder of BMW!

Gustav Otto, the greatest aircraft builder in German history, and his father, Nicholas Auguste-Otto, was the inventor of the famous Otto internal combustion engine. In 1876, he built the first four-stroke cycle engine in human history!

In 1913, Otto and his son established the Bavarian engine factory in Munich, which mainly produced aircraft engines at that time, and a few years later, BMW was incorporated, and the symbol of the blue sky and white clouds has been used in later generations and has become a flirtatious artifact.

Unfortunately, after the First World War, according to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany would not be able to produce any military aircraft, let alone aircraft engines, so BMW had no choice but to make the switch.

It was in 1922 that BMW began producing motorcycle engines. In the early days, they only supplied engines to motorcycle brands such as Victoria in the United Kingdom.

And a year later, the first BMW motorcycle was born, and this was the cross-era R32!

This motorcycle, developed in just five weeks, has the world's first boxer engine and the world's first motorcycle with shaft transmission!

From this time on, the shaft drive design became one of the most recognizable features of BMW motorcycles!

The R32 can reach a top speed of 90 km/h, which may not be very fast compared to other manufacturers' motorcycles, but its durability is quite strong, especially in many races, it can win with durability, because other motorcycles fall apart before they finish the race!

Now, although BMW has entered the field of automobile production, its motorcycle production is still the main business, and now, with the development of the army, BMW's motorcycle development will also enter a new stage!

The current Ciric, who is a colonel, works in the weapons and equipment department, and can be responsible for almost all the weapons and equipment of the German army, which is also related to his previous foreshadowing.

Panther tanks, battleships, aircraft carriers, these all began with the intervention of Ciric. Therefore, it is most appropriate for Ciric to be in charge of all this.

After taking up this position, in addition to focusing on the assembly line production of the Panther tank, Ciric put forward many other ideas.

Like, about getting motorcycles into service in the army!

After World War I, Germany became a defeated country, in addition to the size of the army was greatly reduced, because of the deterioration of the country's economy, the equipment update of the German army was also quite slow, so that many armies are still equipped with bicycles as a means of transportation!

Bicycles, of course, cannot really be used as equipment for the troops, think of the German army, the conquest of Moscow on bicycles, Ciric is absolutely drunk, so it is necessary to develop new means of transport to replace bicycles!

What's best?

Motorcycles, of course!

In later films, it is common to see German GIs galloping across the field on horseback, and motorcycles also play a huge role in the army.

Before the start of each attack, the motorcycle reconnaissance detachment is often the advance of the entire offensive sequence, the motorcycle shape is smaller than other vehicles, easy to conceal, equipped with machine guns on the partial, but also gives it good combat performance, can provide fire support to their own infantry, Germany's various mechanized armies, are equipped with a large number of motorcycles, after all, it is cheap.

At the same time, the motorcycle can be used for a variety of other purposes, for example, it is an important equipment of the German signal corps, riding it, quickly transmitting combat orders between the various combat units in motion.

Put the radio equipment on the car, and it becomes a communication command vehicle; On the front lines of war, it is the ideal vehicle for quickly ambulance and transport of the wounded.

Heavy military motorcycles have high traction capacity, and with a special tow bucket, it is an ammunition/supply delivery vehicle; If necessary, it is also capable of acting as a towing vehicle, towing some light artillery!

It can be said that one car has multiple functions.

Of course, the off-road ability of motorcycles is always inferior to that of tracked vehicles, but at this stage, it is necessary to equip various armies with a large number of motorcycles.

Ciric takes this very seriously.

And for BMW, this is a good development opportunity!

After receiving the order from above, BMW quickly carried out the corresponding development, and it took two months to manufacture the BMW R75 motorcycle in front of him!

"Colonel Ciric, this is our latest military motorcycle developed by BMW." Next to him was Fritz, BMW's chief engineer, who introduced the motorcycle in front of him.

"According to the mechanical indicators originally proposed, our motorcycle, with a displacement of 746 cc, is powered by a 26 hp twin-cylinder air-cooled engine, a four-speed gearbox, with a reverse gear, and a top speed of 95 kilometers per hour."

This motorcycle, which looks quite rugged, catches the eye first not with a steel tubular frame, nor spoked wheels, not a powerful-looking exhaust pipe, but with a seat.

Yes, the first thing that the future generations see is the seat, because it is the most primitive bicycle seat!

It definitely doesn't look as comfortable as the foreskin of the later generations of sponge seats, but if you sit on it...

In the eyes of everyone, Ciric stepped up, feeling the same as the later generations riding the platoon.

Yes, this is an absolute large displacement!

Although it doesn't look very good, when you sit on it, you can feel that it is still very ergonomic, except for the brakes above the front handle, and the shaft is on the outermost.