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These Benjamin Pump guns were manufactured by the Wissler Instrument Co. of St. Louis under a U.S. patent that had been issued to Benjamin. Unlike many air guns of this period, the Benjamin was intended not as a toy, but as a high-power compressed air gun in which pressure was built up by pumping a built-in piston located beneath the barrel.
In 1988 the rights to the designs were purchased by Benjamin-Sheridan [3] and the HR-81 and HR-83 then enjoyed limited production in the USA. [4] The American model differed from the UK model in that the rearsight, which was moved rearwards to become a removable part, was mounted on the scope rail, and the stock had a noticeably different shape.
B. Hick and Sons, subsequently Hick, Hargreaves & Co, was a British engineering company based at the Soho Ironworks in Bolton, England. [5] Benjamin Hick, a partner in Rothwell, Hick and Rothwell, later Rothwell, Hick & Co., set up the company in partnership with two of his sons, John (1815–1894) and Benjamin Jr (1818–1845) in 1833.
A para-athlete competing with a match air rifle A collection of lever-action, spring-piston air rifles. An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun.
Benjamin Hick (1 August 1790 – 9 September 1842) was an English civil and mechanical engineer, art collector and patron [7] whose improvements to the steam engine and invention of scientific tools were held in high esteem by the engineering profession; [1] some of Hick's improvements became public property without claiming the patent rights he was entitled to or without their source being known.
Robert Blackburn (aviation pioneer) Lilian Bland; Andrew George Board; Ian Bonham-Carter; John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara; Sefton Brancker; Frederick Brearey; Griffith Brewer; Arthur Whitten Brown; Mrs Victor Bruce
The Royal Pioneer Corps was a British Army corps used for light engineering tasks. It was formed in 1939, and amalgamated into the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993 ...
Benjamin Lancaster (1 December 1801 – 16 March 1887) was a 19th-century businessman and philanthropist. He was born in 1801, married Rosamira Bellairs on 5 June 1851 at Bedworth , Warwickshire, and died in Bournemouth in 1887 leaving an estate valued at £137,584 4s 2d.