The current issue of Classics Monthly. Here’s a link about their pots and pans business. No idea in that era what % of their income was derived by pots/pans vs other items, like bicycles…
Now it makes sense, we’re talking about the 2-3 years immediately after WWII, they made any and everything to survive. A bit different than
Yes, George, I knew about BMW bicycles in resent years because I was searching for bmw motorcycles using Google image search engine and it showed the bicycles. I was impressed.
Several luxury makers have contracted out bikes to provide their customers with an expensive trinket to hang off their bumper. BMW, Porsche, Audi, I bet there are others.
edit-turns out there are at least 10 luxury car makers that have partnered with bike makers to put out models under their brand names:
From BMW to Land Rover, 10 luxury car brands that also build bicycles | YourStory
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Interesting. It wouldn’t occur to me to purchase a Land Rover bicycle just b/c I had purchased a Land Rover vehicle. hmmm … Maybe that’s why I’m never offered a job in the major car company’s marketing department ? … lol …
Or maybe the plan is to offer up a free bicycle if I purchase a Land Rover vehicle. An enticement. That might work.
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In 1972 I bought a new bike so I could commute to work. Paid $90 at the tempo department store. No idea who made it but still have it but needs new tires. Replaced the French Ross I had as a kid.
One of my fraternity brothers went to work for Philco Ford right out of college in the early 1970s. He said that the plant executives got Ford cars to use for a year or two and then they were sold to the employees. You always knew which cars the executives drove because they were parked in cross hatch painted spots. He said that there was a Pantera or two in those spots.
Want transportation when your Italian sports car breaks down again?
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In 5th grade had a school field trip to the St Paul assembly plant, back then they were building ‘63 full size cars.
Pity your dad did not fly the Tri-motor, I have flown in two different Tri-Motors. With the low wing loading and slow speed, seem to float up on takeoff. Much quieter than expected.
Porsche was also a tractor maker. The tractor they designed was licensed to Algaer to build it. It was sold with the Porsche name on it.
My wife worked for Frigidaire in Moraine Ohio for a few months before Gm sold the business to White and closed the plant.
Inland division made ice cube trays. Inland also made a cheap sheet metal 45 caliber machine gun for WW2. Delco Products made large electric motors as well as Craftsman bench grinders in the Dayton area plants.
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Thanks for the memories about East German cars. I was stationed in Potsdam in the early '70s and saw plenty of Trabants (Trabis) and Wartburgs. Officials did tend to use Wartburgs, such as police and secret service (the infamous Stasi). They were pretty slow though, thank goodness.
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