Birmingham Small Arms Company

The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited
Company typeListed company
IndustryManufacture of motorcycles
arms industry
machinery industry and plant construction
manufacture of metal forming machinery
manufacture of weapons and ammunition
vehicle construction Edit this on Wikidata
FoundedGun Quarter, Birmingham, England, 1861
FounderThomas Turner
Defunct1973
FateRemainder acquired 1973 by Manganese Bronze Holdings
Headquarters
Birmingham
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Footnotes / references
  • BSA brand Bicycles are currently manufactured and distributed in India by TI Cycles of India.
  • Motorcycles bearing the brand BSA were briefly manufactured after 1979 by a business now known as BSA Regal
  • BSA brand air rifles are manufactured in Birmingham by a subsidiary of Spanish manufacturer Gamo
Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930

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.

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.