FounderDuels

British Aerospace vs Steyr Arms

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.

Steyr Arms is the older of the two, founded in 1864 — 113 years before British Aerospace.

Founded
1977
1864
Status
Closed 1999
Active
Headquarters
Farnborough, United Kingdom
Sankt Ulrich bei Steyr, Austria
Industry
weapons industry
weapons industry
Founders
Not recorded
Josef Werndl
Employees
Not recorded
150
Legal form
joint-stock company
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Parent
Not recorded
Steyr-Daimler-Puch

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on British Aerospace and Steyr Arms.