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The airguns included model names like the Standard, Light Pattern, Club, and Breakdown air rifles.Īfter World War II, BSA produced models with names like the Airsporter, Merlin, Cadet, Meteor, Mercury, and Scorpion. In the years between the two World Wars, BSA produced a wide variety of shotguns, sporting rifles, and airguns. By 1914, BSA had obtained several air rifle patents but the outbreak of World War I delayed the introduction of BSA’s new air rifles until 1919. It was so successful that in 1911, the company introduced a 410 shotgun based on the Metford bolt Acton. Due to the mass production techniques in use at BSA this gun was much less expensive then competitors guns.

These precision-made guns were so successful that BSA moved into the modestly priced, good quality sporting arms market.

The War Office granted BSA a contract for 100,000 War Office Miniature Pattern. In 1904 it received a contract to supply 1,000 Lincoln Jeffries model H air rifles to the Lincoln Jeffries Company. This concept proved economically successful, however, by 1904, the company had to diversify. This system was in stark contrast to the production of sporting arms, which were entirely hand-made at that time. The basis of this mass production was interchangeable parts. The factory was designed for mass production of firearms right from the beginning.

They constructed a new factory at Small Heath, and equipped it with the latest machines. Brief mention of BSA’s military production is made as well as reference to other British gun companies.īSA was founded in 1861, by a group of Birmingham gunsmiths. The book, however, begins with the origins of the company in 1861. The Golden Century is a concise, illustrated history of the commercial gun production by the BSA firm from 1906 to 2000. It documents the activities of the firm’s mass production techniques rather than the traditional gun making methods in use during the 19th century. This newly published book on the Birmingham Small Arms Company’s (BSA) commercial gun production breaks new ground in the field of British firearms history.