Mike Sales wrote:Mick F wrote:Royal Enfield Bicycle ............... made like a gun.
And of course BSA stands for Birmingham Small Arms.
I guess the engineering skills must be similar.
War effort I believe.
Mike Sales wrote:Mick F wrote:Royal Enfield Bicycle ............... made like a gun.
And of course BSA stands for Birmingham Small Arms.
I guess the engineering skills must be similar.
Mike Sales wrote:Mick F wrote:Royal Enfield Bicycle ............... made like a gun.
And of course BSA stands for Birmingham Small Arms.
I guess the engineering skills must be similar.
JakobW wrote:Mike Sales wrote:Mick F wrote:Royal Enfield Bicycle ............... made like a gun.
And of course BSA stands for Birmingham Small Arms.
I guess the engineering skills must be similar.
Firearms were the first products to be mass produced with interchangable parts, mainly because armies and governments were the only people willing to pay for the privilege of developing the manufacturing techniques required. Once this had been sorted, it spread into industry more widely. Sewing machine manufacturers were a perhaps surprising destination for a lot of this expertise; they were the hot new product of the day, and could sell as many as the manufacturers could crank out. When the bicycle boom started a lot of them moved into the mass manufacture of bicycles and cycle parts.
Mike Sales wrote:Mick F wrote:Royal Enfield Bicycle ............... made like a gun.
And of course BSA stands for Birmingham Small Arms.
I guess the engineering skills must be similar.
I'm well aware of what BSA stands for and that Raleigh made shell parts, but it was the advert than made me laugh. Made LIKE a gun?Mick F wrote:Royal Enfield Bicycle ............... made like a gun.
Mick F wrote:I'm well aware of what BSA stands for and that Raleigh made shell parts, but it was the advert than made me laugh. Made LIKE a gun?
There is nothing similar between a gun and a bicycle.
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