Roy
here is an early aerial photo of the BSA.
tramp,
I wasn't able to find a photo of Accles & Pollocks as their factory was in Oldbury and 99% of my photos are of Birmingham, but here is a little of their history.
In 1901 The general engineering company of James George Accles was renamed Accles & Pollock after receiving financial backing from Thomas Pollock. In 1901 Pollock Engineering Company acquire the rights to make the Accles-Turrell car. Then in 1910 Accles & Pollock built the world's first all-metal aircraft, the Mayfly, in their Oldbury factory, using a steel tubing structure. Later in 1913 Accles & Pollock granted a patent for seamless tapered steel golf shafts. In 1919 The company was purchased by Tube Investments (TI) Later developments were in 1987 Golf club shaft manufacturing becomes a separate subsidiary, TI Apollo. Then in 1996 TI sold the company to the Hay Hall Group. A little later in 1998 it was Sold to the Senior Engineering Group and in 1999 it was acquired by Tyco International.
Phil