BSA catalogue July 1919 

BSA Air Rifles in USA 1915 

BSA brochure (circa 1936) 

BSA brochure (single sheet, 1930s - yellow) 

Two-sided, single sheet brochure, printed in the 1930s.

Scans provided by Lakey.

Overview:

The brochure in detail:

BSA brochure 1921 

This, I am led to believe,is a gun dealer free hand out type flier from 1921. Printed on both sides with guns and accessories.

BSA brochure (single sheet, 1930s - red) 

With thanks to Jason for these scans.

Here is another single sheet, double-sided, BSA air rifle brochure, dating from after
January 1933 when the Breakdown Pattern rifle was introduced. It's very similar to
the yellow printed one posted above this thread, but has a different cover photo and
other small differences.

The Breakdown is advertised at £2 10 shillings, whereas John Knibbs says in Golden Century
that the launch price was £2 5s.0d, so we can assume this brochure does not date from the
beginning of 1933.

One difference I've noticed so far is that K R Davis is listed as a director on this
brochure, but is absent on the other one.

For some odd reason on this brochure, waterproof covers are advertised in two places, the
first for two underlever rifles (first fold, bottom left pic 1) and the second (in box,
second fold, pic 1) for three rifle including the Breadown.

Overview:

Detailed view:

BSA range 1914 (Charles Riggs) - Sights 

With thanks to the owner Morgan and to John for these scans of this interesting old brochure.

BSA range 1914 (Charles Riggs) - Air rifles 

Thanks once again go to the lucky owner, Morgan, and to John for the scans of this brochure.

The New Sport (c. 1920) 

For some reason I had forgotten to post these copies of this charming brochure, although Lakey kindly sent them to me ages ago.

Anyway, here it is. Very '20s (PG Wodehouse?) in terms of its writing style, presumably designed to appeal to the moneyed English
middle classes in a newly-demobbed nation that must have been a bit wary of shooting after the carnage of WW1. But it makes plenty
of references to the War, so perhaps attempting to capitalise on national pride in the victory over Germany too?

BSA catalogue 1909 (2nd edition) 

With many thanks to Pete for letting me borrow this catalogue to scan copies.

Here are just the pages relevant to air rifles. The wind-gauge sight slides page illustrates the 'push' slide fitted to the BSA Military Pattern air rifle. The fact that the rifle has a military issue slide fitted is referred to in the blurb about the Military Pattern on page 19.

Note that in the section on the life of rifle barrels at the beginning, it says there is no record of an air rifle barrel wearing out 'by fair means' - which presumably doesn't include the use of steel darts designed for a smoothbore!

The reference on page 18 to 'The Complete Air-Gunner' being available to purchase is presumably R B Townshend's book of that name, but it says it is 88 pages long, whereas my copy (Dennis Hiller's reprint) runs for more than 100 pages, which is a bit of a mystery (is the reprint of an expanded second edition?).

BSA catalogue January 1920 

With thanks to Pete for letting me scan this catalogue.

Production Equipment Co brochure (New York City, 1930s) 

With thanks to Trev for these pics. Note that the content is very much addressed to a market used to powder burners and needing to be convinced that a pellet rifle was a serious contender.

Page 2-3 spread

BSA brochure (1920s) 

With thanks to Peter for these pics: