Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The standard-issue Webley revolver at the outbreak of the First World War was the Webley Mk V (adopted 9 December 1913 [9]), but there were considerably more Mk IV revolvers in service in 1914, [10] as the initial order for 20,000 Mk V revolvers had not been completed when hostilities began. [9]
The .455 Webley Auto Mk I cartridge was produced from 1913 to about the middle of World War II. This is a semi-rimmed cartridge for the Webley & Scott Self Loading pistols. [4] The early version of the cartridge (c.1904) had a shorter [clarification needed] 21.7 mm (0.85 in) semi-rimmed case with a narrow rim and a pointed bullet. A later ...
The Enfield No. 2 was a British top-break revolver using the .38 S&W round manufactured from 1930 to 1957. It was the standard British/Empire sidearm in the Second World War, alongside the Webley Mk IV and Smith & Wesson Victory Model revolvers chambered in the same calibre.
Browning M2 – heavy machine gun, mounted on many lend-lease vehicles. Besa machine gun – in 7.92mm BESA and 15mm BESA forms used as armament on British-built tanks and armoured cars only. Vickers-Berthier – light machine gun adopted by British Indian Army before the war, and used until replaced by Bren guns around 1942.
As Webley had used the .38 S&W cartridge dimensions for their revolver, and the cartridge length was fixed by the size of the cylinder of the revolver (the same as for the wider .455), Kynoch produced a cartridge with the same dimensions as the .38 S&W but with 2.8 grains (0.18 g) of "Neonite" nitrocellulose powder and a 200 grain (13.0 g ...
British Bull Dog revolver: Webley & Scott.44 Bull Dog.442 Webley.450 Adams: 5 United Kingdom: 1872-1900s Charter Arms Bulldog: Charter Arms.44 Special.357 Magnum.38 Special: 5 United States: 1973-present Chiappa Rhino: Chiappa Firearms.357 Magnum 9mm Parabellum.40 S&W 9×21mm.38 Special: 6 Italy: 2010-present Collier flintlock revolver: John ...
Webley Mk VI revolver; Webley Mk IV revolver; Browning Hi-Power P35; Smith & Wesson Victory; Beaumont-Adams revolver (Volunteer Defence Corps) Webley M1872 Bull Dog (Volunteer Defence Corps) Colt Model 1851 Navy (Volunteer Defence Corps) Smith & Wesson No.3 (Volunteer Defence Corps)
Webley Mk IV: Revolver: 1887-1928 British Empire: Chambered in .455 Webley: Enfield No 2: Revolver: 1932-1945 British Empire: Colt New Service: Revolver: 1900-1928 United States: Also used by the NWMP and RCMP from 1905 to 1954. Chambered in .455 Webley: Colt M1911: Semi-automatic pistol: 1914-1945 United States: Smith & Wesson Model 44 ...