[CR]Re: Who made them? BSA!

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From: <NortonMarg@aol.com>
To: monkeylad@mac.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Who made them? BSA!
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:56:22 EST

In a message dated 11/12/02 6:31:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, monkeylad@mac.com writes:

<< I've always liked the BSA stuff and they seem to have made just about
   every metal part for a bicycle at one time or another. I've always
   wondered if they made all the parts themselves or contracted them from
   other folks other than Sturmey-Archer for the hubs. Though the BSA
   Sturmey hubs were just more than re-labeled SA 3-speeds. They were a
   major armaments manufacturer, thus the "A" in their name, so I'm sure
   they had the tooling and know-how to do it. On the flip-side it seems
   like a major investment and change of direction, particularly with the
   need for British Small Arms by the British for warfare from 1910 to
   1945. >> In the motorbike world, BSA was known for making ALL their own stuff. They were one of the few that made their own exhaust pipes. Gas tanks and other sheet metal parts were all "in house". The rifle on their logo is a "Martini-Henry". Roughly 1872 and a falling block, single shot breech loading rifle with metallic cartridge. It replaced the Snider conversion musket (Brit version of the Trap-Door Springfield). I would be amazed if ANY of the bicycle parts were farmed out (other than the 3 speed hubs?). Stevan Thomas Alameda, CA