Birmingham Small Arms Company
The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process.
Company type | Listed company |
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Industry | Manufacture of metal forming machinery Manufacture of motorcycles arms industry machinery industry and plant construction manufacture of weapons and ammunition vehicle construction |
Founded | Gun Quarter, Birmingham, England, 1861 |
Founder | Thomas Turner |
Defunct | 1973 |
Fate | Remainder acquired 1973 by Manganese Bronze Holdings |
Headquarters | Birmingham , |
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After the Second World War, BSA did not manage its business well, and a government-organised rescue operation in 1973 led to a takeover of such operations as it still owned. Those few that survived this process disappeared into the ownership of other businesses.
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