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The Enfield No. 2 was a British top-break revolver using the .38 S&W round manufactured from 1930 to 1957. It was the standard British/Commonwealth sidearm in the Second World War, alongside the Webley Mk IV and Smith & Wesson Victory Model revolvers chambered in the same calibre.
The .476 calibre Enfield Mk I and Mk II revolvers were the official sidearm of both the British Army and the North-West Mounted Police, as well as being issued to many other Colonial units throughout the British Empire. The term "Enfield Revolver" is not applied to Webley Mk VI revolvers built by RSAF Enfield between 1923 and 1926.
In 1887, the British Army was searching for a revolver to replace the largely unsatisfactory .476 Enfield Mk I & Mk II revolvers, the Enfield having only replaced the solid frame Adams .450 revolver which was a late 1860s conversion of the cap and ball Beaumont–Adams revolver in 1880. Webley & Scott, who were already very well known makers of ...
Browning Hi-Power (Canada in 1944 produced Hi-Powers for China but later that year they've developed simplified version and adopted it as Pistol No. 2) [42]; Enfield No.2 (Approx. 3500 revolvers acquired, some issued to RCAF) [42]
Enfield Mk II: RSAF Enfield.476" Revolver Mk II: 6 United Kingdom: 1880-1889 Enfield No. 2: Royal Small Arms Factory.38/200: 6 United Kingdom: 1932-1957 FAMAE revolver: FAMAE.32 Long Colt.38 Special: 6 Chile: FN Barracuda: Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal: 9×19mm Parabellum.357 Magnum.38 Special: 6 Belgium: 1974-c.1989 Freedom Arms Model 83 .500 ...
Lee–Enfield [1] – Main service rifle until the 1950s and afterwards adapted for a variety of specialist roles. EM-2 rifle [ 2 ] – Experimental rifle adopted very briefly in 1951. L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle [ 3 ] – Main Cold War service rifle from 1954 to 1994.
Webley's revolvers became the official British sidearm in 1887, remaining in British service until 1964. After 1921 Webley service revolvers were manufactured by the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield. In 1932 the Enfield No.2.38 inch calibre revolver, became the standard British service revolver. However, wartime shortages ...
The .476 Enfield, also known as the .476 Eley, .476 Revolver, and occasionally .455/476, [1] is a British centrefire black powder revolver cartridge.The Enfield name derives from the location of the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock, the armoury where British military small arms were produced, while Eley was a British commercial brand. [2]