50 year calendar, 1973

Each month has two pages: 1-16 & 17 to end. We got twice as many great old photos this way. These thumbnails cut off the sides of the real photo. Click to see the whole photo.

Thanks to Kurt Schrader for scanning them.

Front page 50 year calendar

BMW R32 line drawing

BMW R32 photo

BMW racing the Nurburgring 1924

BMW R39 1925

Joseph Stelzer and Karl Gall racing on BMW R47

BMW R47 1928

1929, Ernst Henne breaking the world record with 216 km/h or 135 mph

1930, Eduard Krutz wins the 1000 cc class on his BMW 500

1935, prototype of he BMW R17, the first BMW with telescopic forks

1936, Wiggarl Kraus in the Munich “Dreiecksrennen”

1939, BMW R66, the dream machine

1939, Schorsch Meier winning the “Tourist Trophy”

1939, the famous compressor racing machine

1955, Wilhelm Noll breaks the world record for motorcycles with sidecars at 280 km/h, or 174 mph

1956, Michael Krauser racing in track racing

Max Duebel and Emil Horner were world champions consecutively in 1961, 62, 63 and 64

Sebastian Nachtmann was successful in numerous international Cross Country competitions

1961, BMW R69S

1972, Klaus Enders and Ralf Engelhardt wins again

Kurt Distler on his BMW R75/5

1972, Helmut Dahne wins the Tourist Trophy

Police use BMW motorcycles in many countries

These are scans of the rare 1973 calendar for the 50th year anniversary of BMW motorcycle production.