BSA Foundries
of Tividale, Warley, Worcs (1968)[1]
1958 BSA had 3 foundries after the one at Daimler was closed[2]
1963 The foundries used the traditional green sand and wooden patterns. From this time the newer shell moulding technique was introduced.
1966 Part of BSA Metal Components Division[3]
1969 Planned to build a new shell moulding iron foundry[4]
1970 Announced the site for the new £750,000 shell moulding iron foundry would be Darlington.[5]
1973 Became part of Manganese Bronze Holdings
1974 BSA Darlington Foundry seemed to have been a separate business at this time[6]
1977 BSA Darlington Foundry (a ferrous foundry) was part of BSA Foundries; D. F. Bevan (Holdings) bought the Tipton factory and plant; Darlington, a modern automated factory, would be developed more rapidly.[7]
1986 Manganese Bronze created a sub-holding company BSA Foundries Group Ltd to run those plants. The group would be based in Darlington[8]
Foundries within the Business:
1984 Sandwell manufactured high integrity ferrous castings using all electric furnaces; Quantavac analysis provided[9]
1987 Darlington: Zircon Shell Mould Foundry[10]
1989 Beverley: A modern foundry producing Aluminium and Stainless Steel castings by the cold box gravity die and precision casting methods (presumably successor to Alpax)[11]
1991 Sandwell: a leading manufacturer of ferrous and non-ferrous castings, produced by the lost wax/lost polystyrene methods.[12]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Birmingham Mail 10 June 1968
- ↑ The Times Thursday, Jan. 2, 1958
- ↑ The Times Aug. 25, 1966
- ↑ The Times Nov. 12, 1969
- ↑ Wolverhampton Express and Star 15 June 1970
- ↑ The Times July 4, 1974
- ↑ The Times Jan. 22, 1977
- ↑ Birmingham Mail 16 April 1986
- ↑ Sandwell Evening Mail 29 March 1984
- ↑ 11 September 1987 Newcastle Journal
- ↑ Hull Daily Mail 14 April 1989
- ↑ Sandwell Evening Mail 15 August 1991