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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.
Apr 26, 2017 · The iron and steel companies gave birth to Birmingham, creating tens of thousands of jobs and an aristocracy of owners and managers. But the power brokers behind the iron and steel firms largely kept Birmingham a one-industry town. Dependence on the city's founding industry left the city vulnerable to economic swings.
Fort Dunlop ( grid reference SP129902 ), is the common name of the original tyre factory and main office of Dunlop Rubber in the Erdington district of Birmingham, England. It was established in 1917, and by 1954 the entire factory area employed 10,000 workers. At one time it was the world's largest factory, when it employed 3,200 workers.
So we have decided to build a purpose-built ammunition factory for small arms. This will include calibres such as 9mm, .45, .32 S&W, .320 Auto, 5.56, 7.62 as well as shotgun and other specialist munitions for both commercial and military use.
Birmingham is one of England's principal industrial centres and has a history of industrial and scientific innovation. It was once known as ' city of a thousand trades ' and in 1791, Arthur Young (the writer and commentator on British economic life) described Birmingham as "the first manufacturing town in the world". [1]
Apr 16, 2011 · W & C Scott & Sons was started in 1834 by William Scott on Weaman Street, and eventually moved to Lancaster Street in Birmingham where they had built the Premier Gun Works, in which they manufactured upper end shotguns. Philip Webley's son Henry retired after the deal was done. In 1901, Webley's push into the asian market was stopped cold by ...
The Birmingham Blitz was the heavy bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe of the city of Birmingham and surrounding towns in central England, beginning on 9 August 1940 as a fraction of the greater Blitz, which was part of the Battle of Britain; and ending on 23 April 1943. Situated in the Midlands, Birmingham, the most populous British city ...
