The best of everything! BSA’S sure were and still are a class act. What a wonderful trip down memory lane.These machines were built by hand with love and care. It’s amazing the AA machines would go 50,000 miles before a rebuild. That guy driving the forklift made me a little bit nervous😢. Thanks for posting this. It’s a great video.
Another brilliant video..The telegram boys on their red bantams...They use to ground the bottom of the leg shields and "hop" around the corners...Thanks...Bought back happy memories...
Tigress / Sunbeam competent but rather ugly compared to the italian competition and late to the party. To be fair to them they weren't much less of a common sight on the roads than a lot of other English and German makes (certainly by the late sixties / early seventies when I started riding). At least their relative unpopularity made them cheap! I had several 250s. Just don't talk about the ease of access for maintenance!
I was born down the road from the factory & sometimes i'd watch them testing the Motorcycles on the test track & not knowing that in a few years later the factory would close forever
Every bike produced by that factory was somebody's pride and joy back in the day and any one of them a rare and valuable classic today and still it's owners pride and joy! (which is more than you can say for the VAST majority of Japanese bikes..)
Excellent!
The best of everything! BSA’S sure were and still are a class act. What a wonderful trip down memory lane.These machines were built by hand with love and care. It’s amazing the AA machines would go 50,000 miles before a rebuild. That guy driving the forklift made me a little bit nervous😢. Thanks for posting this. It’s a great video.
Brilliant !! Happy days . 😊
Another brilliant video..The telegram boys on their red bantams...They use to ground the bottom of the leg shields and "hop" around the corners...Thanks...Bought back happy memories...
When British people built the best
… and now like many manufacturing countries of old most countries now in the western world build nothing😢
"We never had it so good" just when this film was made, biodegradable packaging too. How far we've come?Oh dear..
Just a tiny part of the once massive BSA empire still stands if you know where to look. Of the local populace these days the less said the better.
No matter how much they promoted the scooter no one took to them.Poor BSA.😢
Tigress / Sunbeam competent but rather ugly compared to the italian competition and late to the party. To be fair to them they weren't much less of a common sight on the roads than a lot of other English and German makes (certainly by the late sixties / early seventies when I started riding). At least their relative unpopularity made them cheap! I had several 250s. Just don't talk about the ease of access for maintenance!
I was born down the road from the factory & sometimes i'd watch them testing the Motorcycles on the test track & not knowing that in a few years later the factory would close forever
Every bike produced by that factory was somebody's pride and joy back in the day and any one of them a rare and valuable classic today and still it's owners pride and joy! (which is more than you can say for the VAST majority of Japanese bikes..)
There are however some fantastic Japanese legendry bikes , Kawasaki KH , Suzuki GT , Yamaha RD , Honda CBX to name but a few, but yes I agree
BSA were utterly dreadful, put together by f**kwits who didn't give a shit
These men were mostly replaced by automated tools. 😢
Old TV docus make me laugh, besides, that is not Ted Bonner at the rifle range 0:40 !!
did i see my A10 super rocket engine being built up ?
the downfall was not helped by the Dockers
...and within a decade it was all gone. What did our leaders do to this once great country - now an outcast and international embarassment.
And full of migrants.
As with all british automotive companies making rubbish now unsurprisingly as with all of them gone down the pan due to poor quality and crap product