• Gork
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    11 months ago

    Other than the giant swastika, does it bother anyone else that the kerning is uneven? The B is farther away from the M than the M is from the W.

    • Naz@lemmy.one
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      11 months ago

      Now that you mentioned it, it does bother me, but it might have been on purpose.

      BMW stands for Benelli (?) Motor Werk(s), so essentially it’s:

      (Location) -space- (Factory Type)

      At least that’s my assumption for it, because otherwise, it being Nazi Germany, if that was a typographical error, the person stamping those would probably be shot

      • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 months ago

        It is Bayerische Motoren Werke. Funnily enough, that’s wrong orthography, it should be Bayerische Motorenwerke, so you have a point.

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        11 months ago

        It was already pointed out that you were wrong about what the B stands for, but I’d like to point out that Benelli is a pretty cool motorcycle manufacturer in Italy.