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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 ...
Description: This Birmingham Small Arms Co. Model single shot with falling block action rifle is a .357 Magnum Cal. Made in Australia this rifle is in overall very good condition and has excellent rifling. The wood is of a rich and deluxe grain pattern.
Oct 10, 2010 · The company provided over half of all the small arms used by England during the war. Once again they built over a million rifles. Their totals included 500,000 Browning machine guns, over 30,000 20mm guns, 68,000 anti-tank rifles and 750,000 rockets.
A brief history of BSA. On June 7th 1861, at a meeting in a Birmingham hotel room, the decision was made to form a public company, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited, to make guns by machinery. Having formed a company the gunsmiths looked for a site on which to build their factory. Eventually the founders settled for 25 acres of ground ...
The old company went into voluntary liquidation, its assets being sold to a new company, "The Birmingham Small Arms and Metal Company", and by this title it continued to be known for 24 years until 1897, when the ammunition business, which had been centred at an Adderley Park factory, was sold to the rapidly expanding Nobel interests ...
Oct 3, 2021 · The old Birmingham Small Arms Co. is a name that just refuses to stay down. This feature has been updated from its original appearance in the March 2005 issue of American Rifleman .
The articles began in May 1984 under the title "BSA - The Rise of the Piled Arms" in three parts. Susequently, from Part V, the remaining ten parts became "The BSA Story", each published in John Walter's regular column the "AIRGUN SCENE". This can be viewed as a text-searchable flip-page document. or with vertical scrolling by clicking the ...
