• @SGGeorwell
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    Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

      • IninewCrow
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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

        • @[email protected]
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          Nintendo started off making playing cards, that’s why their logo is a [Remainder of comment removed due to Cease and Desist]

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

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          Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

          • IninewCrow
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            82 months ago

            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’

              • IninewCrow
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                192 months ago

                German for Bavarian Motor Works

                God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!

        • Ephera
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          152 months ago

          The image of a propeller is from an ad they once ran, but the logo existed beforehand.

        • Lord Wiggle
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          22 months ago

          Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

      • @kn33
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        132 months ago

        Then they moved to motorcycle forks

        • Boxscape
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          122 months ago

          Then they moved to motorcycle forks

          Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

          Stay on target.

    • IninewCrow
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      302 months ago

      The meme has it backwards … worker should be saying … ‘I guess we produce motorcycles now’

      • snooggums
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        192 months ago

        “I guess we are getting history backwards now”