After the Second World War, allied soldiers requisitioned and occupied the BMW plants. Since BMW had been classified as an armaments company, machines and tools were dismantled. From 1945 onwards “stopgap” production, mainly of household appliances, was started in Milbertshofen - as was also the case at the Berlin plant. 1945 – The Munich plant is dismantled. 1948 – A motorcycle from nothing: The BMW R 24. 1951 – The BMW 501: the first post-war BMW. 1959 – BMW REMAINS INDEPENDENT.