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Westley Richards is a British manufacturer of guns and rifles and also a well established gunsmith. The company was founded in 1812 by William Westley Richards, who was responsible for the early innovation of many rifles used in wars featuring the British Army during the 1800s. It remained in the hands of the Richards family until it was ...
James Purdey & Sons. James Purdey & Sons, or simply Purdey, is a British gunmaker based in London, England specialising in high-end bespoke sporting shotguns and rifles. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Purdey holds Royal Warrants of appointment as gun and rifle makers to the British and other European royal families.
A hand-built gun from H&H can cost around £60,000 for a shotgun and close to £100,000 for some rifles, with prices roughly doubling with luxury engraving, and there is a waiting period of 2–3 years between ordering and delivery. [4] In the 1990s, Holland & Holland started a major expansion programme.
The Colt New Model revolving rifles were early repeating rifles produced by the Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1855 until 1864. The design was essentially similar to revolver type pistols, with a rotating cylinder that held five or six rounds in a variety of calibers from .36 to .64 inches. [ 1] They were mainly based upon the Colt Model ...
Next plc, trading as Next (styled as NEXT) is a British multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer, which has its headquarters in Enderby, England. [ 3] It has around 700 stores, of which circa 500 are in the United Kingdom, and circa 200 across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. [ 1] Next is the largest clothing retailer by ...
Founded by Mel and Patricia Ziegler as a retailer with a safari theme, the business was purchased by GAP, who repositioned the retailer to a more upmarket position. The first UK shop opened in Regent Street, London in March 2008. Jeff Banks
The KS (Knight's Stoner) Carbine, is a series of rifles produced by Knight's Armament Company (KAC). It is designed as an improved version of their Armalite AR-15 clone called SR-16. The 13.7" KS-1 variant was adopted as the L403A1-AIW by the British Armed Forces in 2023 to replace the L85A2-A3 and L119A1-A2 rifles used by British Army and ...
Many Soviet-capture Karabiner 98k rifles (as well as some Karabiner 98k rifles that were left behind by the French after the First Indochina War and Type Zhongzheng rifles provided by the People's Republic of China) were found in the hands of Viet Cong guerrillas and People's Army of Vietnam (NVA) soldiers by US, South Vietnamese, South Korean ...