of Montgomery Street, Birmingham (1965)
of Waverley Works, Coventry Street, Birmingham (1975)
Part of BSA
1963 Metal Components Division had been underdoing extensive reorganisation during the past year and there had been some improvement in its overall results. B.S.A. Sintered Components Ltd was the largest company in the division[1]
1965 B.S.A. Sintered Components, Ltd. did not want fitters in its toolroom. Everything has to fit. Scarcity of highly skilled toolmakers was their bottleneck. [2]
1967 BSA acquired S.M.C. Sterling of Crewkerne, and would amalgamate it with its own sintering operation at Sparkbrook[3]
1968 Metal Components Division acquired Belford Sintered Metals Ltd of Sedgefield, County Durham.
1968 Mr Lush was a director and general manager of BSA Sintered Components[4]
1968 Moved to Coventry Street[5]
1969 The future growth of BSA Sintered Components, Ltd., was outlined in Birmingham by its managing director, Mr. R. W. N. Danielson. He spoke of the tremendous competition the drop forging industry faced from sintered metals.[6]
1973 January orders at B.S.A. Precision Castings at Redditch, reached a record £100,000 and the order book at B.S.A. Sintered Components was healthy. The smallest company in the division, BSA Metal Powders[7] presumably.
1975 Patent on Metal Powder Compositions
1976 David Northway, director and general manager BSA Sintered Components, was appointed managing director of the sister company, BSA Metal Powders.[8]
Later part of Manganese Bronze
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Birmingham Daily Post 13 November 1963
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 08 June 1965
- ↑ The Times , Sep 12, 1967
- ↑ Coventry Evening Telegraph 18 September 1968
- ↑ Birmingham Mail 10 June 1968
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 10 December 1969
- ↑ Coventry Evening Telegraph 18 April 1973
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 18 August 1976