It is hard to believe that BSA once sold every fouth motorcycle purchased. I still have my M21, B31 and A65. Superb roadholding and adequate power for sane people were always the hallmark of BSA machines. The fact that one can maintain these motorcyles with a basic kit of tools is a bonus. I have always been a cautious rider, but my old schoolfriend, Fast Eddie, used to put the wind up Japanese enthusiasts on his A75 forty years ago. One meets the best amateur engineers, actual engineers, cranks and delightful people on BSA ride days.
Its not the workers its the English toffs they want us to work for nothing.I had it a few years ago,Thats the way we always done it,It is still going on,I have retired now as have my skills,and young people need training,we are fucked
Interesting I can't remember one strike at BSA or find one on record. I can find loads or of records on the terrible management who didn't have the brains to correct the problem of oil pressure on the timing side bearing of the A65.
Females often have superior fine motor coordination, one reason they were employed to assemble things like bomb fuses etc since WWI. Much of the WWII US aircraft production workforce was female, my mother included. I inherited her mechanical aptitude which served me well in a career fixing Phantoms, Broncos and F-16s.
@@hereandthere4763 Interesting, browsed the web for image and found it. Passing similarity of the configuration to one bank of a VW engine. Thanks for the reply.
Whatever they may say or show in this video, the end results proved that the quality control system in this plant was a very bad one. Reliability of their products was among the weakest in the motor industry.
I lived just round the corner from the factory when this was filmed!😊
It is hard to believe that BSA once sold every fouth motorcycle purchased. I still have my M21, B31 and A65.
Superb roadholding and adequate power for sane people were always the hallmark of BSA machines.
The fact that one can maintain these motorcyles with a basic kit of tools is a bonus.
I have always been a cautious rider, but my old schoolfriend, Fast Eddie, used to put the wind up Japanese enthusiasts on his A75 forty years ago. One meets the best amateur engineers, actual engineers, cranks and delightful people on BSA ride days.
Loved the old BSAs I had, but this film showed to the Japanese would no doubt raise a few chuckles.
In those years Japanese did not raised anything yet; so that was the way all over.
Thanks for sharing this video 👍👍👍👍👍
Hand made motorcycles. No wonder they went out of business. I still have a 650 Lightning.
grandes maquinas. tempo em que imperava a qualidade e nao a quantidade.
Don't they look fantastic at the end with all those shinny spokes ,all new .
Go BSA. I like the circus music.
Natural gas run=in was interesting, and sophisticated for the time.
Edger Dumbleton was my grandad
27,000 WORKERS GREAT BIKES VERY SAD END FOR BSA RIDERS ..I GOT 3
Very good good good
My BSA 650 sounds better than my1200 harley sportster, and turns more heads
production goals exceeded 1 or 2 units a month. then they went on strike again!
Its not the workers its the English toffs they want us to work for nothing.I had it a few years ago,Thats the way we always done it,It is still going on,I have retired now as have my skills,and young people need training,we are fucked
Interesting I can't remember one strike at BSA or find one on record. I can find loads or of records on the terrible management who didn't have the brains to correct the problem of oil pressure on the timing side bearing of the A65.
This was when people were not termed, natural resources.
My Spitfire still lives.View it in my videos in the man cave
Women are more suitable to big end checking, that's because their wages were lower
Females often have superior fine motor coordination, one reason they were employed to assemble things like bomb fuses etc since WWI. Much of the WWII US aircraft production workforce was female, my mother included. I inherited her mechanical aptitude which served me well in a career fixing Phantoms, Broncos and F-16s.
5:53 Two-fifty twin, you say? Not heard of that one... .
Used in Triumph Tigress and BSA Sunbeam scooters.
@@hereandthere4763 Interesting, browsed the web for image and found it. Passing similarity of the configuration to one bank of a VW engine. Thanks for the reply.
@@whalesong999 You're not wrong. Never thought of that before now.
Amazingly inefficient British factory like each person working alone in a shed. If only they have listened to ford engineers before the japanese did
@jesus jones Don't know what you are smoking but I would love to have some
british engineering at its best.
I would have liked to watch this, but alas the video quality rivals that of the bikes.
Love these two people who either never owned one or put it together themselves.
Whatever they may say or show in this video, the end results proved that the quality control system in this plant was a very bad one. Reliability of their products was among the weakest in the motor industry.