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The Martini Cadet is a centrefire single-shot cadet rifle produced in the United Kingdom by BSA and W.W. Greener for the use of Australian military Cadets. [1] Although considered a miniature version of the Martini–Henry, the internal mechanism was redesigned by Auguste Francotte to permit removal from the receiver as a single unit.
Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930. The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome ...
BSA or the Birmingham Small Arms Company started trading in 1861 in Birmingham, England, and until 1905 only did 'Government' work. In 1909 it produced its first commercial hunting and target rifles, based on a Martini–Henry lever action. These continued in production until the company was liquidated in 1986, when the name and air rifle range ...
Originally (from 1889) Martini–Henry conversions used Metford rifled barrels (and were known as Martini–Metford rifles), which were more than suitable for the first .303 cartridges, which used black powder as a propellant but wore out very quickly when fired with cordite/nitrocellulose cartridges (introduced in 1895). In 1895, the Enfield ...
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The serial number of this pistol is located under the dust cover on the frame, on the barrel, and on the slide. The bolt of an Arisaka military rifle, which carries identifiers matching the main serial number which is on the receiver. A gun serial number is a unique identifier assigned to a singular firearm. [A]
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Photograph of a placard with NA number 3082. The NA numbers (North American Numbers are assigned by the United States Department of Transportation, supplementing the larger set of UN numbers, for identifying hazardous materials. NA numbers largely duplicate UN numbers, however a selection of additional numbers are provided for materials that ...