Got this from a friend,
Seems even Johnny had some problems:
You may think what's that got to do with motorcycles, well, scroll down a bit
Cheers,
Lex
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Ha ha ha! LOL!
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So BSAs were trouble even 40 years ago when much newer?...
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Yeh, Yeh, Yeh,.'The Unexceptional Norton'...Just come back from another event with 6 M20s and one Norton..
... ...Ian
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In fact Ian, the last road run that we done yesterday was all M20s the Norton did not want to go out to play
Hmmm..56 out of 144 bikes on 65 for 65 were M20s...I guess that makes BSAs slogan 'One in four is a BSA' a bit modest..it should have been 'One in two and a half'... ....Difficult facts for owners of lesser makes I suppose... ...Ian
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Yes it would seem BSA's are 2 a penny and every now and then you see a classy Norton
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Hard to believe there were 126,000 M20s produced when BSA were making over 1600 components a minute, 24 hours a day for the entire duration of the war...but then no one could match BSAs production capacity at the time..They made more folding bicycles than some firms made motorcycles.. ...Ian
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...Ian Ian, did BSA actually have more then one factory? like Enfields, had 4 I think? with all that production going on, the factory must have been enormous!
Visited the Harley Davidson Final Assembly Plant in York PA a couple of times, and that was not so big, but then the engines etc. were made in Milwaukee, still very nice to see a motorcycle being built on an assembly line!
Cheers,
Lex
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...Ian You'd have thought that Triumph would've been the firm to make frames with a hinge in the middle.
No Triumph were the firm that made Nortons fast and reliable IE; the Triton
Hi Lex..The BSA group had 28 factories..and made 60,000 folding bicycles...Ian
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Ah, now I don't feel so stupid for not knowing either
Can we start a new topic on this??
Cheers,
Lex
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Post war, motorcycles were also built at the Redditch factory as well as at Small Heath..I don't know if this was the case during the war...BSA made precision alloy castings, general castings, armour plate, ship crankshafts, Daimler armoured cars, anti aircraft rockets , shell fuses, numerous different weapons and spares, bicycles, machine tools, all the rotor blades for early jet engines..etc. etc. as well as motorcycles..Even if you are not a BSA fan the sheer number and variety of parts produced by them are both interesting ad mind boggling...Ian
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