Banbury Small Arms.....whaddya think?

[Speedy23]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/16/b...

Happy...? Or not?

What do you think? It will be a welcome reverse if they do manage to get Small Heath up and running again.

Fingers crossed....

[Prof Prolapse]

Billionaires throwing money at the UK looks good to me.

From the article he sounds respectful of the brand, and rather than just throw out another purely "retro" bike into a saturated and established market he looks to be trying to have an electric USP using a good brand with a British badge on it.

Royal Enfield looks good enough these days with a similar operation isn't it?

Best of luck to him.

[Wacky Racer]

Let's hope it comes off.

I have just finished reading this excellent book, highly recommended

[chris4652009]

Another case Legacy fraud.........

[randlemarcus]

chris4652009 said:

Another case Legacy fraud.........

Not necessarily - I would have thought that it's more a case of finding a country daft enough to give pots of R&D and tax breaks to billionaires

As said above, on the face of it, having a willing source of funds for UK R&D is a Good Thing. Whether that R&D comes to anything, and whether that "anything" leads to UK based volume manufacture is a bit nebulous.

[srob]

chris4652009 said:

Another case Legacy fraud.........

I’d say it’s the opposite. If they were rattling out retro caff racers it would be “legacy fraud”.

Making a modern, up to date machine with new technologies is exactly what BSA should have been doing. In fact if they had they may not need rekindling now!