Bsa Motorcycle Photograph Bsa Motor Cycles For 1936 by Mark Rogan
The Birmingham Small Arms Firm Limited (BSA) was a major British professional combine, a grouping 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 mining harvests; and hard chrome process. In its peak, BSA (who also owned Triumph) was the most significant motorbike 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 decrease of sales to their 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 Dureté Holdings, then owners of Norton-Villiers, and over the following decade further closu...
