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[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 123 points 3 days ago

Yamaha started as an Organ and piano manufacturer.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 106 points 3 days ago

Hence why their logo is 3 tuning forks.

logo

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 100 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 43 points 3 days ago

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

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Silent movies with Chaplin?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

I think it's also a reference to the bavarian flag.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days 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'

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 35 points 3 days ago

Which is literally just German for Bavarian Motor Works.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago

German for Bavarian Motor Works

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

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago
[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Peugeot started off making pepper and salt grinders.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

That’s awesome

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

[-] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 days ago

Then they moved to motorcycle forks

Maybe they can do Y-Wings next.

Stay on target.

[-] gitamar@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

But also resemble a motor with three pistons.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 days ago

The meme has it backwards .... worker should be saying .... 'I guess we produce motorcycles now'

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

"I guess we are getting history backwards now"

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