Birmingham has been an arms making town since forever. The origins of the Birmingham Small Arms Company draw on that heritage. A thriving arms trade by Smiths and Cutlers had been mentioned as early as 1538. Autocad 2006 Free Download For Windows 8. Groups of gunmakers from Birmingham had been supplying enormous amounts of arms to British as well as foreign armies since 1692. But after the Crimean War, Birmingham faced a crisis. Their contribution of hand made weapons far outweighed their competitors, but the Government armories at Enfield threw a new wrench in the works.

They started using machinery to make guns, not only cranking out a superior number of guns per week, but it was also easier to make the parts interchangeable, something hand made guns could never accomplish. To remedy their situation, around 1860 a group of Birmingham gunmakers formed the Birmingham Small Arms Company with the intention of buying machines to build guns the new way. They bought a plot of ground outside Birmingham at Small Heath and set up their factory there. The board of directors included notable members of the arms trade. Swinburn later had a patent on a modification to the Martini Henry rifle, and Charles Pryse of Pryse and Redman, maker of muskets and handguns. Cardshark Darwin Ortiz Pdf Converter Chest Patch Lineage 2 Wiki. on this page. With a government contract to build Snyder conversions and other contracts to foreigners, BSA was working overtime to keep up. The boards influential contacts with the government's elite helped keep work coming during lulls in European Wars.