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Birmingham Small Arms Company

Birmingham Small Arms Company
Company nameBirmingham Small Arms Company (BSA)
Company typePrivate
FateDefunct Receivership 1973
FoundedGun Quarter, Birmingham, England 1861
HeadquartersBirmingham
Key peopleJ.D. Goodman (Chairman 1863 � 1900), Sir Hallewell Rodgers (Chairman 1906 � 1928), Sir Bernard Docker (Chairman 1940 � 1956), Jack Sangster (Chairman 1956 � 1961)
Productsvehicles, firearms, ammunition, bicycles, motorcycles and military equipment

Birmingham Small Arms Company

Company nameBSA Motorcycles Ltd
IndustryMotorcycle
Fateeffectively bankrupt
SuccessorNorton-Villiers-Triumph
Founded1919
Defunct1972
HeadquartersBirmingham
ParentBSA

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The Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) is a British based airgun and shotgun manufacturer. BSA is a former manufacturer of 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.

At its peak, BSA was the largest motorcycle producer in the world. Loss of sales and poor investments in new products in the motorcycle division, which included Triumph Motorcycles, led to problems for the whole group.

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The BSA M20 was a British motorcycle made by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) at their factory in Small Heath, Birmingham. Initially viewed as a near failure by the War Office in 1936, the M20 evolved into one of the longest serving motorcycles in the history of British military motorcycling, as well as becoming the most numerous type produced for World War II with 126000 in active service, so many are still in use around the world today. Development At the outbreak of World War II BSA were Britain's largest motorcycle manufacturer with a long history of armaments supply to the armed forces. Designed by Val Page the BSA M20 started development in 1937 as a heavy framed sidecar model with a simple 500cc single cylinder side valve engine. It had low compression and plenty of low end torque through a standard BSA gearbox. Early K-M20 models from 1939 were made from standard civilian parts with the addition of military fittings, such as a large 8 in Lucas DUl42 headlight (fitted with a black out mask), a timing-gear cover with a screw-in plug for access to the magneto drive-pinion nut and special filler caps the petrol and oil tanks. These early military M20 models were also fitted with a long spiked prop stand on the rear nearside pivoted from a lug brazed on to the rear frame tube. Factory ledgers show that BSA exported K-M20 models to Sweden, South Africa and India, as well as civilian dealers and distributors.
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Jamestown Post Journal--He was proud of his childhood accomplishment for achieving the -BSA- Eagle Scout Award. With great honor and commitment David served in the US Navy for 10 ... - Date : Sun, 07 Nov 2010 06:32:16 GMT+00:00
Building boom: Confection construction claims spotlight at Gingerbread House ... - Daily Herald Tweet this news
Daily Herald--15 at the -BSA- Service Center. PTA membership chairman Kathy Allred said that the festival will feature “well over 100” dwellings made from flour, sugar, ... - Date : Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:22:04 GMT+00:00
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Insurance News Net (press release)---BSA- Strategies announced today the launch of BSANewsNow.com, its official news and information source website dedicated to Anti-Money Laundering, ... - Date : Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:18:23 GMT+00:00
Luftwaffe embarked on 72 brutal bombing campaigns on Birmingham - Birmingham Mail Tweet this news
Birmingham Mail--The Aerodrome Factory, Castle Bromwich, -Birmingham Small Arms Company-, Small Heath, the Austin Works, Longbridge, and GEC in Witton were among the most ... - Date : Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:11:32 GMT+00:00
J--MAINTENANCE FOR AEROFLEX PRODUCTS - Trading Markets (press release) Tweet this news
Trading Markets (press release)--The initial intended scope of this support contract is to cover the five EPG owned Aeroflex -BSA-/G systems. No known third party vendor repair services exist ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:01:44 GMT+00:00
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PR-inside.com (press release)--2010-08-04 10:00:34 - Edcomm Banker's Academy has recently launched -BSA- and AML for Retail Support Staff training program for individuals. ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:05:53 GMT+00:00
Sailors make the BSA proud - Bahamas Tribune Tweet this news
Bahamas Tribune--TEAM leader and president of the Bahamas Sailing Association (-BSA-) John Lawrence has expressed his pride in the organisation's sailors following the XXI ... - Date : Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:11:06 GMT+00:00

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DefunctABC (1919 �1923) * Abingdon (AKD) (1903 �1925) * Advance (1905 �1947) * AER (1937 �1940) * AJW (1928 �1976) * Ambassador (1946 �1964) * Ariel (1902 �1970) * Armstrong (1980 �1987) * Ascot-Pullin (1928 �1930) * AMC (1937 �1966) * Baker (1927 �1930) * Bat (1902 �1926) * Baughan (1920 �1936) * Beardmore Precision (1914 �1930) * Blackburne (1913 �1922) * Bradbury (1902 �1924) * Brough (1908 �1926) * Brough Superior (1919 �1940) * BSA (1919 �1972) * Calthorpe (1909 �1939) * Chater-Lea (1900 �1936) * Clyno (1909 �1923) * Corgi (1946-1954) * Cotton (1918 �1980) * Coventry-Eagle (1901 �1939) * Coventry-Victor (1919 �1936) * DMW (1945 �1971) * DOT (1908 �1978) * Douglas (1907 �1957) * Dunelt (1919 �1935) * Duzmo (1919 �1923) * EMC (1947 �1977) * Excelsior (1896 �1964) * Francis-Barnett (1919 �1966) * Greeves (1953 �1976) * Haden (1912 �1924) * Healey (1971 �1977) * Hesketh (1981 �1988) * Humber (1898 �1930) * HRD (1922 �1928) * Ivy (1911 �1934) * James (1902 �1966) * JAP (1903 �1939) * Levis (1911 �1939) * Martinsyde (1919 �1923) * Matchless (1899 �1966, 1988-90) * Montgomery (1902 �1939) * Ner-a-Car (1921 �1926) * New Hudson (1903 �1958) * New Imperial (1901 �1939) * Norman (1935 �1963) * Norton-Villiers (1966 �1972) * Norton Villiers Triumph (1972 �1978) * NUT (1912 �1933) * OEC (1901 �1954) * OK-Supreme (1882 �1940) * P&P (1922 �1930) * Premier (1908 �1921) * Panther (1904 �1967) * Quasar (1975 �1982) * Quadrant (1901 �1928) * Raleigh (1899 �1967) * Rex-Acme (1899 �1933) * Rickman (1960 �1975) * Rover (1902 �1924) * Royal Enfield (1893-1971) * Rudge (1911 �1946) * Scott (1908 �1965) * Silk (1976 �1979) * Singer (1900 �1915) * Sprite (1964 �1974) * Sun (1911 �1961) * Triumph (1885 �1983) * Sunbeam (1912 �1964) * Velocette (1904 �1968) * Villiers (1898-1966) * Vincent-HRD (1928 �1959) * Wilkinson (1911 �1916) * Wooler (1909 �1954) * Zenith (1905 �1950)

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