Webley 1868 RIC ( Royal Irish Constabulary ) Revolver Cal 450 CF

The. 450 Adams ( 1868 ),. 476 Enfield ( 1881 ), and. 455 Webley ( 1887 ) British service cartridges all featured a case diameter of. 476 inch.

A 1868 Webley & Scott Revolver.

There is some question whether the gun or guns presented to George Armstrong Custer were Webley RIC ’ s.

Of course, it is possible that Lord Berkeley Paget may have given Custer two revolvers, both a Galand & Sommerville and a Webley RIC or even given the Custer brothers, in some combination, a pair of Webley RICs and a pair of Galand & Sommervilles.

Galand & Sommerville 44 revolvers were made to use the same ammunition as the first Webley RIC ’ s, i. e. Webley's. 442 centre-fire cartridge.

In 1932 the Enfield No. 2. 38 inch calibre revolver, based on the Webley Mark IV, became the standard British service revolver.

The Mark VI ( known as the Webley Revolver No. 1 Mark VI after 1927 ) was the last standard service pistol made by Webley ; the most widely-produced of their revolvers, 300, 000 were made for service during World War I.

Their action was contested by Enfield, who stated that the Enfield No 2 Mk I was actually designed by Captain Boys ( the Assistant Superintendent of Design, famous for the Boys Rifle ) with assistance from Webley & Scott, and not the other way around — accordingly, their claim was denied.

British combat experience during World War II with the. 38 / 200 Enfield revolvers during World War II seemed to confirm that, for the average soldier, the Enfield No. 2 Mk I could be used far more effectively than the bulkier and heavier. 455 calibre Webley revolvers that had been issued during World War I.

The British firearms firm Webley & Scott also made an " automatic revolver " around the turn of the 20th century.

* On the debut album by Evelyn Evelyn ( produced by and featuring Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls and Seattle folk-hero, Jason Webley ), the second track – " A Campaign of Shock and Awe " – references Rolling Stone.

Famous police and military revolvers include the Webley, the Colt Single Action Army, the Smith & Wesson Model 29, the Smith & Wesson Model 10, the Smith & Wesson 1917 and the Nagant M1895.

Image: Webley_Military_Mark_IV_1793. jpg | Webley Mk IV in. 380 S & W

Webley & J. Harvey in 1962 revealing the disarticulated remains ( i. e. not complete skeletons ) of six adults and two children, dated to the Early Bronze Age or Beaker culture.

This led to the 1906 trials of pistols from six firearms manufacturing companies ( namely, Colt, Bergmann, Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken ( DWM ), Savage Arms Company, Knoble, Webley, and White-Merril.

The standard Metropolitan Police pistol at the time was the. 32 Webley automatic, a number of which were issued on the night.

Their small arms were the same as the rest of the army's: the bolt action Lee-Enfield rifle and the Enfield or Webley revolver or the M1911 pistol.

Many officers from the First World War used their Webley Mk VI. 455 revolvers.

The latter was the father of 1 ) Sir George Price Webley Hope, an Admiral in the Royal Navy, who was the father of Maurice Webley Hope ( 1901 – 1986 ), a Brigadier in the Army, and 2 ) Herbert Willes Webley Hope ( 1878 – 1969 ), an Admiral in the Royal Navy, whose son Adrian Price Webley Hope was a Major-General in the Army.

Though the British firm Webley and Scott had developed several adequate self-loading pistols, one of which was adopted by the ( normally unarmed ) British police in 1911 and by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines before the First World War, revolvers were generally preferred by most British military.

Webley & Scott Mk VI.

The Special Constables were armed with a Webley. 38 revolver and also Lee Enfield rifles and bayonets.

Pepperboxes and transitional revolvers started disappearing gradually in the 1850s with the manufacture of true revolvers by Samuel Colt, Webley, Robert Adams, Smith and Wesson, Jacob Rupertus and others.

In the late 19th century many British officers used the privately-purchased 4-barrel Lancaster pistol in preference to the standard-issue Beaumont-Adams and Webley revolvers as it had greater stopping power, a faster rate of fire and was quicker to reload.

The WG frame & cylinder were then shortened for the. 455 & the variant was adopted in the 1880s as the Webley Mk 1. Webley " WG " Army Model ( a. k. a. Webley Government ) Revolver cal 455 / 476 (. 476 Enfield ) Nicknamed " the British Peacemaker " in the United States, the Mk 1 was manufactured in. 450,. 455 Webley, and. 476 calibre and founded a family of revolvers that were the standard handguns of the British Army, Royal Navy, and British police constabularies from 1887 to 1918.

By way of compensation, however, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors awarded Webley & Scott £ 1, 250.

The gang's superior firepower led the police to drop the Webley Revolver in favour of the Webley semi-automatic in London.

Mick's girl, who is on the roof with them, produces a Webley Revolver from her belt and shoots the Headmaster through the forehead.

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The famous Webley Revolver | Webley Mk VI, standard sidearm of the British Army 1915 – 1932

In 1897 Webley amalgamated with W & C Scott and Sons to become The Webley and Scott Revolver and Arms Company Ltd of Birmingham.

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The Ordnance Factory Board of India still manufactures. 380 Revolver Mk IIz cartridges, as well as a. 32 caliber revolver ( also known as IOF Mk1 ) with barrel that is clearly based on the Webley Mk IV. 38 service pistol.

* The Webley Longspur Revolver ( 1853 )

* The Webley Revolver Marks I-VI, ( 1887 to 1923 )

* Webley Fosbery Automatic Revolver Model 1900

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In 1895 he patented a design for a self-cocking revolver, which was taken up by the Webley & Scott Revolver & Arms Company.

Thus, in the early 1900s, the U. S. reverted to the. 45 Colt in single action revolvers, and later adopted the. 45 ACP cartridge in what was to become the M1911A1 pistol and the British adopted the. 455 Webley caliber cartridge in the Webley Revolver.

From left to right:. 450 Adams,. 455 Webley Mk I,. 455 Webley Mk II cartridges