The /5 models were the first to be built at BMW's new motorcycle factory in Spandau, West Berlin.
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During World War II the Wehrmacht needed as many vehicles as it could get of all types and many other German companies were asked to build motorcycles.
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With the Armistice, the Treaty of Versailles banned the German air force and the manufacture of aircraft in Germany, so the company turned to making air brakes, industrial engines, agricultural machinery, toolboxes and office furniture and then to motorcycles and cars.
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