The Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960

The Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960 PDF Author: Joseph McKenna
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476683786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Tracing the history and development of gun-making in Birmingham, England--for many years a center of the world's firearms industry--this book covers innovations in design and manufacture of both military and sporting arms from 1660 through 1960. The city is perhaps best known for mass-producing some of the most battle-tested weapons in history, including the Brown Bess musket, the Webley revolver and the Lee-Enfield rifle. Yet Birmingham's gun-makers have carried on a centuries-long tradition of crafting high quality hand-made sporting guns.

Birmingham Gunmakers

Birmingham Gunmakers PDF Author: Douglas Tate
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571570550
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Illustrated with fine examples of craftsmanship.

English Gunmakers

English Gunmakers PDF Author: De Witt Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description

The Birmingham Gun Trade

The Birmingham Gun Trade PDF Author: David Williams
Publisher: Revealing History (Paperback)
ISBN: 9780752432373
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This fascinating volume explores the relationships between the technology and history of gunmaking. Covering the period from 1720 to 1950, it sees the mechanical engineering technology of the "lock, stock and barrel" firearm change significantly. David Williams, an engineer and academic, has studied the battle between the manual processes of assembly and the clumsy but tireless machine, and here examines this complex relationship in gunmaking, paying particular attention to military firearms manufacture and the growth and decline of the Birmingham military and sporting gun trade.

British Gunmakers: Historical data on the Birmingham, Scottish and Regional gun trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

British Gunmakers: Historical data on the Birmingham, Scottish and Regional gun trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries PDF Author: Nigel Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
One of the most important aspects of the British Gunmakers series of books has been the compilation of the past and existing records of the many gunmaking firms and the setting down of the historical facts known about them before they get lost in the mists of time. No such collection, just like a cartridge collection, can ever be complete but this volume in conjunction with the first two is undoubtedly the best printed source of such historical record information available anywhere in the world. --
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