BRILLIANT BEESAS FROM BRUM

BSA are really well known amongst the airgun community for their high-grade PCPs, manufactured in Birmingham, and good value spring and gas-ram air rifles made by Gamo, their Spanish parent company since 1986.

They have numerous UK and overseas competitors – different from the market domination that this company had enjoyed in the first half of the twentieth century.

Let’s rewind and take a look at a potted history of BSA before later, in subsequent articles, I’ll home in on their air rifles from the 1940s to the 1960s. I actually have a close interest in BSA, having owned numerous models manufactured from 1906 onwards, some of which I’ll later comment on individually.

“THEIR INTENTION WAS TO SELL INTO THE MUCH WIDER, COMMERCIAL MARKET”

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