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British Aerospace vs Smith & Wesson

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Smith & Wesson is the older of the two, founded in 1852 — 125 years before British Aerospace.

Founded
1977
1852
Status
Closed 1999
Active
Headquarters
Farnborough, United Kingdom
Springfield, United States
Industry
weapons industry
weapons industry
Founders
Not recorded
Horace Smith, Daniel B. Wesson
Legal form
joint-stock company
Profit Corporation
Listed on
Not recorded
Nasdaq

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on British Aerospace and Smith & Wesson.