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Webley & Scott is an arms manufacturer founded in Birmingham, England. Webley produced handguns and long guns from 1834 to 1979, when the company ceased to manufacture firearms and instead turned its attention to producing air pistols and air rifles. In 2010 Webley & Scott restarted the production of shotguns for commercial sale.
The shotgun shells used primers manufactured by larger eastern ammunition firms. [4] When the firms with primer manufacturing facilities raised primer prices in 1900 to reduce competition from independent shotgun shell assembly plants, the Western Cartridge Company formed the Union Cap and Chemical Company (UCC) as a joint venture with Austin ...
It was long rumoured that Ernest Hemingway committed suicide with a Boss shotgun, but it was later proven by the authors of Hemingway's Guns that the gun he used was a W&C Scott. When asked by one of the Robertson family if he had ever considered a Boss, King George VI replied, "A Boss gun, a Boss gun, bloody beautiful, but too bloody expensive ...
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H. W. Cooey Machine & Arms Company: 12 gauge 16 gauge 20 gauge 28 gauge.410 bore Canada: 1947 Cynergy Shotgun: Browning Arms Company United States Japan: 2004 Chiappa Triple Threat: Chiappa Firearms: 12 gauge United States Italy: 2013 Double-barreled shotgun: Joseph Manton: 10 gauge 12 gauge United Kingdom: 1875 ENARM Pentagun: ENARM: 12 gauge ...
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Fosbery took his design to P. Webley & Son of Birmingham. P. Webley & Son, which merged with W.C. Scott & Sons and Richard Ellis & Son in 1897 to form the Webley & Scott Revolver and Arms Co., was the primary manufacturer of service pistols for the British Army as well as producing firearms for civilian use.