1953 EMW 35 Engine and frame number 257512 Matching 20170km on the odometer SIDE: type MZS 820 number H97 East German registration 4000 / 8000 € 350 tumbled with original EMW side car In 1928, BMW acquired the German carmaker Dixi and its factory in Eisenach, a Thuringian town some 400 km north of Munich. Here, BMW produced some of its most powerful car models, such as the 325. When, in 1940, the German government ordered industry to devote itself almost exclusively to the war effort, BMW stopped production of the R 35 in Munich and transferred the stock of unsold spare parts to Eisenach. At the end of the war, Eisenach was in the Soviet-occupied zone, then integrated into the German Democratic Republic. The Eisenach plant was requisitioned and, in 1945, resumed production of automobiles, followed by R 35 motorcycles. Between 1945 and 1955, three versions of the R 35 were successively produced in Eisenach under the BMW brand name and, from 1952, under the EMW brand name: the R 35/1, identical to the pre-war R 35; the R 35/2, equipped with a hydraulic telescopic fork and produced for a few months in 1952; and the R 35/3, with hydraulic fork, sliding rear suspension and foot-operated gearshift, and, from 1953, pre-equipped to be coupled as a sidecar. The model presented here is in beautiful original condition, with its original EMW sidecar.