Hi Ken,
Westley Richards also had military comitments.
They even tried to introduce their pistol in the British Army, without success.
Their 'monkey tail' system became famous; following a couple flirts with the Portuguese Arsenal, patent allowance and all that, ended up with a contract of 1000 pistols to Portuguese Cavalry (the only existing quantity of the kind), besides a few thousand rifles and carbines.
Not so easy finding the correspondent (sword) bayonets.
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Last edited by fernando; 4th September 2014 at 03:38 PM.
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