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The Birmingham Small Arms Organization Limited (BSA) was a major British professional combine, several businesses manufacturing armed service and sporting firearms; bikes; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron ordonnance; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered materials; and hard chrome process. In its peak, BSA (who also owned Triumph) was the major motor bike producer in the world. Back in the 1952s and early 1960s poor management and failure to develop new products in the motorcycle division led pre lit to a dramatic drop of sales to the major USA market. The management had failed to appreciate the value of the resurgent Japanese motorcycle industry, leading to problems for the complete BSA group. A government-organised rescue procedure in 1973 led to the takeover of remaining functions in what is now Manganese Dureté Holdings, then owners of Norton-Villiers, and over the following decade further closures and dispersals. The first comp...