Birmingham Small Arms Company
The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British 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.
Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930
1957 Daimler DK400 limousine
Lewis gun
Vintage BSA motorcycle on High Street in Honiton, England
The Gun Quarter is a district of the city of Birmingham, England, which was for many years a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns. It is an industrial area to the north of the city centre, bounded by Steelhouse Lane, Shadwell Street and Loveday Street.
The Bull pub still stands today; in the mid-19th century it was where gun workers were paid their wages
St Mary's Chapel in Whittall Street was a focal point of the area. It was demolished in 1920s to make room for the expansion of the General Hospital in Steelhouse Lane.
Photograph of the now demolished St Mary's Row, viewed from Loveday Street. W W Greener, Prize Gun Works is on the right.
An 1868 Webley & Scott Revolver. Webley's revolvers became the official sidearms of the British Army in 1887
