Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
James Purdey was born in Whitechapel in 1784, and apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Thomas Keck Hutchinson. After completing his training, he worked for both Joseph Manton and Rev. Alexander Forsyth, before establishing his own company in London, England, in 1814, locating his business on Princes Street, now Wardour Street, near Leicester Square.
The .246 Purdey, also known as the .246 Flanged, is an obsolete centerfire rifle cartridge developed by James Purdey & Sons and introduced in 1921. Overview [ edit ]
Pages in category "James Purdey & Sons cartridges" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9
The .400 Purdey is a rimmed straight walled centerfire rifle cartridge intended for use in single shot and double rifles.It fires a bullet of .405 inches (10.3 mm) diameter weighing 230 grains (15 g), driven by 47 grains (3.0 g) of cordite, at a listed speed of 2,050 feet per second (620 m/s).
The .369 Nitro Express is a rimmed cartridge originally designed for use in Purdey's own double rifles.The cartridge offers almost identical ballistic performance to the .375 H&H Flanged Magnum, firing a projectile of the same .375 in (9.5 mm) caliber.
The .400/360 Nitro Express (2 3 ⁄ 4-inch) cartridges are a number of very similar, but not interchangeable, centerfire rifle cartridges developed by James Purdey & Sons, William Evans, Westley Richards and Fraser of Edinburgh, all at the beginning of the 20th century.
Before 1935 George J. Hyde was a machinist and shop foreman at Griffin & Howe. [1] He quit Griffin & Howe and went on to become the co-owner of Leonard & Hyde in New York. He partnered with Samuel A. "Harry" Leonard, an expert shotgun and rifle stock maker, who had trained at James Purdey & Sons of London. Hyde also did contract gunsmithing ...
James Purdey & Sons This page was last edited on 30 March 2019, at 21:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...