Manganese Bronze Holdings the early 1960s Manganese Bronze Bearings Ltd (as it was then known) was taken over by a Dennis Poore investment vehicle, Villiers Engineering Ltd, a motorcycle company chiefly known for its range of engines, creating Manganese Bronze Holdings Ltd. This company subsequently bought Associated Motor Cycles Ltd, owners of the Norton AJS and Matchless motorcycle brands in 1964. Manganese absorbed part of the Birmingham Small Arms Company in 1973 - which included Carbodies, the Coventry-based London taxicab maker, under chairman Dennis Poore, as part of a rescue plan initiated by the British government. BSA Motorcycles interests trading as Triumph were
Nutopia (production company) according to "The Guardian", the production company set out with the aim of producing and selling large-scale documentaries for the United States cable market. In 2009, Nutopia brokered a deal with The History Channel to create "". It was one of the first productions by Nutopia, which according to "The Guardian" cost three times the average budget an hour. Over the next two years, the production company grew to a core staff of 15 and had an annual turnover of £15 million. In 2012, Nutopia released another series in "The Story of Us" format titled, "Mankind: The Story of All