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The Peters Cartridge Company was a company located along the Little Miami River in Kings Mills, Ohio, which specialized in gunpowder and ammunition production. Founded in 1887 by Gershom Moore Peters, the company supplied military ammunition to various countries during both world wars.
The .45 Auto Rim, also known as 11.5x23mmR, is a rimmed cartridge specifically designed to be fired in revolvers originally chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge.. The Peters Cartridge Company developed the cartridge in 1920 for use in the M1917 revolver, large numbers of which had become available as surplus following the end of World War I. [3]
Peters Bookselling Services, a specialist children's bookseller in Birmingham UK Peters Cartridge Company , a former gunpowder and ammunition producer in Kings Mills, Ohio Peters Fashions , a family-run department store in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England
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In 1877 Joseph King built the King's Great Western Powder Company at Kings Mills, Ohio which later became the Peters Cartridge Company. [ 2 ] A boiler explosion on 1 March 1886 ignited 2500 25-pound (11 kg) kegs of powder in a storehouse which disintegrated killing three men, leaving a crater 10 feet (3.0 m) deep and causing an "earthquake ...
The .25 Stevens / 6.4x28mmRF was an American rimfire rifle cartridge. [1] To differentiate from the related .25 Stevens Short it is sometimes also referred to as .25 Stevens Long.
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