Birmingham Small Arms Company
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This article is about the 1861–1973 UK manufacturer. For the motorcycle manufacturer with legitimate rights to use the BSA name after 1978, see BSA 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.
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Industry | Manufacture of motorcycles arms industry machinery industry and plant construction manufacture of metal forming machinery 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.