In 1880 BSA manufactured the Otto Dicycle, In the 1880s the company began to manufacture safety bicycles on their own account and not until 1905 was the company's first experimental motorcycle constructed. What cycles needed was large quantities of standard parts accurately machined at low prices. The gun factory proved remarkably adaptable to the manufacture of cycle parts. The next year, 1880, BSA branched out into bicycle manufacture. In 1879 without work the factory was shut for a year. The first War Office contract was not agreed until 1868. Swinburn under the chairmanship of John Dent Goodman (1816-1900). The system of management of BSA was changed in 1863 when shareholders elected a Board of Directors: Joseph Wilson, Samuel Buckley, Isaac Hollis, Charles Playfair, Charles Pryse, Birmingham mayor Sir John Ratcliffe (c.1798-1864), Edward Gem, and J.F. Their enterprise was rewarded in 1863 with an order for 20,000 Turkish infantry rifles. BSA bought 25 acres (10 ha) of land at Small Heath, Birmingham, built a factory there and made a road on the site calling it Armoury Road.
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