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The BSA M20 is a British motorcycle formerly made by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) at their factory in Small Heath, Birmingham.Although initially viewed as a near failure by the War Office in 1936, the M20 evolved into one of the longest serving motorcycles in the history of British military motorcycling, as well as becoming the most numerous type produced for World War II with 126,000 ...
BSA motorcycles were made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA), which 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.
BSA Guns Ltd was also producing .303 Browning machine guns for the Air Ministry (the main aircraft armament at the time) at the rate of 600 guns per week in March 1939 and Browning production was to peak at 16,390 per month by March 1942. The armed forces had chosen the 500 cc side-valve BSA M20 motorcycle as their preferred machine. On the ...
BSA's first parallel twin. Called "Flash" in the US after 1954 A7S Star Twin: 500 cc 1949 1954 Tuned version of the A7 A7SS Shooting Star: 500 cc 1954 1962 Tuned A7 in swinging arm frame A10 Golden Flash: 650 cc 1950 1962 BSA's first 650 cc parallel twin. Known as "Royal Tourist" in the US from 1960 A10 Super Flash 650 cc 1953 1954
Pages in category "BSA motorcycles" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. ... BSA M20; BSA M33-10; BSA Model E; BSA Model L; R. BSA Road Rocket;
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The Matchless G3/L is a motorcycle developed for use by the British Army during the Second World War, [1] when Matchless manufactured 80,000 G3 and G3/L models. The G3/L became one of the most popular motorcycles used during the war, [citation needed] as it was the first to replace the unforgiving "girder" front forks with a new technology, "Teledraulic" suspension.
The BSA B40 was a series of 350 cc (21 cu in) unit construction single-cylinder OHV four-stroke motorcycles made by the Birmingham Small Arms Company. Developed from the BSA C15 , the machines were produced between 1961 and 1967 for civilian use.