Birmingham Small Arms Company

The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited

Company type	Listed company
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 , UK
Key people	J. D. Goodman (Chairman 1863–1900) Sir Hallewell Rogers (Chairman 1906–28) Dudley Docker, Sir Bernard Docker (Chairman 1940–56) Jack Sangster (Chairman 1956–61)
Products	firearms ammunition bicycles motorcycles vehicles military equipment
Subsidiaries	Firearms BSA Guns Cycles and motorcycles BSA Cycles BSA Motor Cycles New Hudson Sunbeam Cycles Ariel Motors Triumph Engineering Motorcars, buses and bodies The Daimler Company The Lanchester Motor Company Transport Vehicles (Daimler) BSA cars Iron castings Cardiff Foundry and Engineering Machine and small tools BSA Tools Burton Griffiths & Co BG Machinery Fine steels William Jessop & Sons, JJ Saville & Co Bromley Fisher & Turton Coal cleaning and sintering plant The Birtley Co Hard chrome process Monochrome Sintered metals Metal & Plastic Compacts
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

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.