Cycle Manufacturers of the United Kingdom - Birmingham Small Arms Company, Brompton Bicycle, Raleigh Bicycle Company, Thomas Humber, Ariel (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Birmingham Small Arms Company, Brompton Bicycle, Raleigh Bicycle Company, Thomas Humber, Ariel, Moulton Bicycle, Reynolds Cycle Technology, Andrew Ritchie, Sunbeam, Hercules Cycle and Motor Company, Rudge-Whitworth, Sturmey-Archer, Claud Butler, TI Group, Pashley Cycles, Witcomb Cycles, Rover, Ron Cooper, Triumph Cycle, A-bike, Ellis Briggs, Boardman Bikes, Orange, Harry Quinn, Warrick cycles, Tidalforce Electric Bicycle, Coventry Premier, Dawes Cycles, Norman Cycles, Phillips Cycles, Thorn Cycles, Saracen Cycles, Muddy Fox, Ridgeback, Roberts Cycles, Falcon Cycles, Carrera bicycles, Mercian, Robin Hood. Excerpt: This article is not about Gamo subsidiary BSA Guns (UK) Limited of Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B11 2PP or 'BSA Company' or its successors. The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited, BSA was a major 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. At its peak, BSA was the largest motorcycle producer in the world. Loss of sales and poor investments in new products in the motorcycle division, which included Triumph Motorcycles, led to problems for the whole group. A government organized rescue operation in 1973 led to the takeover of remaining operations by what is now Manganese Bronze Holdings, then owners of Norton-Villiers, and over the following decade further closures and dispersals. The original company, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited, remains a subsidiary of Manganese Bronze but its name was changed in 1987. Manganese Bronze continues to operate former BSA subsidiary Carbodies, now known as LTI Limited, manufacturers of London Taxicabs and the largest wholly British own...