Beaver mill

Here is a similar machine but a newer version with AC servos on Fanuc OM.

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Many years a ago,

I was at my Grandparents council house when my Grandfather called me to one side. Now he was a disabled soldier of the Great War who had lost an eye and suffered a little gas poisoning , I have never understood what was Great about it, anyhow he was a man of few words who had spent his working life laboring in Birmingham's Fish Market. Now he said to me (and this was in the 1950 's) Beware the Yellow Peril. ( his exact words ) China would become the World's number One, making and selling it all to us.

It may have taken Sixty+ years but he was correct.

Terry.

One of the many reasons that I emigrated was because in the last couple of years I was in the UK, I had to visit a lot of companies that were downsizing. Basically it was so depressing to visit another empty factory. This was in the late 70s.

Out here our "risk averse" management make such a song and dance about buying new equipment. At one stage, after many months of teeth sucking they finally agreed to stump up the AU$750,000 for a new DMG 5 axis mill. We were told that there would be a slight delay, just a couple of weeks, because "our" machine would be shipped with the 23 (that's twenty three 5 axis mills) that were destined for one factory, in Asia.

Do BSA Machine Tools actually make anything, or are they imported from elsewhere??

cheers

Bill

According to the article on the Midlands News they were manufacturing, with full order books.

Terry.

That's good news.

In 1978 the Small Heath Motorcycle Club had a checkpoint for the ACU/RAC Rally at the old Small Heath BSA Social Club. It was really depressing to see that huge motorcycle factory empty.....................

I just assumed that the machine tool business had gone the same way.

cheers

Bill