The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; ste
Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930
1957 Daimler DK400 limousine
Vintage BSA motorcycle on High Street in Honiton, England
The Daimler Company Limited, before 1910 known as the Daimler Motor Company Limited, was an independent British motor vehicle manufacturer founded in London by H. J. Lawson in 1896, which set up its m
Birmingham Small Arms Company
…of the period's merger movement. Believing he could buy the missing management skills that could not be found within BSA, he started merger talks with The Daimler Company Limited of Coventry. Daimler and Rover were then the largest British car producers. Daimler was immensely profitable. After its capital reconstruction in 1904…
5½-litre 150 bhp Straight-Eight drop-head coupé 1949
Flutes: Daimler's traditional radiator grille topped by now-vestigial cooling fins adopted by 1905
Gottlieb Daimler's railcars "tirelessly ferrying passengers around the Bremen showground as if by magic".
Simms in his Motor Scout in June 1899