Birmingham-based BSA Tools Ltd (
www.bsa-tools.co.uk), one of Britain’s most famous engineering brands, is asking manufacturing firms to help it locate the iconic tool-making machines it believes to be still in operation in machine shops around the world.
The company — synonymous with engineering excellence during the last century — has launched an appeal to find the CNC and multi-spindle automatic lathes that “helped make the world go round”.
Rescued from administration in 2017, the newly re-launched BSA Tools has created 15 jobs and tempted former employees to re-join the business to help a new generation of engineers.
It has the serial numbers of all the old machines in its archive and would like to be able to service and maintain them.
Business development manager Emily Eyles said: “These machines were built to last, and we know many are still working out there — we recently completed a rebuild of one that is 50 years old, and it is now working as sweetly as it was on day one.
"We want to find the machines that are ‘missing in action’. They were designed and built to the specifications of a bygone age, before the notion of built-in obsolescence.
"We have all the equipment and serial numbers to help maintain them in pristine condition and keep them going for the next 50 years.”