Old Bike Motorcycle

The Birmingham Small Arms Organization Limited (BSA) was a major British professional combine, a team of businesses manufacturing military services and sporting firearms; mountain bikes; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron libéralité; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered alloys; 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 contributed to a dramatic fall of sales to it is 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 businesses in what is now Manganese Fermeté Holdings, then owners of Norton-Villiers, and over the following decade further closures and dispersals...