Talk:Webley & Scott

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Merge[edit]

I suggest that Webley and Webley and Scott kept separate as separate companies. GraemeLeggett 13:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Graeme regarding the automatic redirect from Webley to Webley and Scott. Regarding the merging of Webley & Scott Flare Guns and the main company article, I only created the page today and am still finding my feet with Wikipedia. I have sufficient information that I'm sure will warrant the flare guns having a page of their own, so please give me a chance to get it all online before a decision is made. -James

"top-break"[edit]

I think that there should be a seperate article for the term "top-break". I have created an empty link and placed it on my list of articles to create. W&S were one of the major manufacturers of quality high power break-top revolvers in the world. Stress words quality and high power. Other manufacturers made mostly low powered break-top.--TGC55 16:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

General comments[edit]

The article is culled from very a out-of-date source (Bill Dowell's book) and there are more modern books -- e.g. Bruce & Reinhardt (2 vols) + Gordon Bruce's book on the air pistols + Cuthbertson "World Wide Webley" (which has the BEST chapter on the Birmingham Gun Trade that is available) Still there are errors and NO INDEXES for the Stocker-Schmidt (Swiss publ.) books. Boothroyd'd "The Handgun" puts things in context well and also deals reasonably with Adams and Tranter, and Taylerson's 3-vol "The Revolver" is useful, albeit hard to use. The best overall view is Bob Maze's "Howdah to HiPower"

Jim Hallam, specialist collector of British revolvers : jimhallam@dial.pipex.com

Further along this theme I think that the section on Custer should be shuffled into its own section, and if we're going to talk about Custer and Webley firearms then we might as well talk about the rumor that a British agent in Russia might have shot Rasputin with a Webley (see the Rasputin page for more on that, I think). --Edwin Herdman 01:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The Webley company was founded in the early 18th century by William Davies, who made bullet moulds. It was taken over in 1934 by his son-in-law, Philip Webley," Exceptional longevity? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.

110.64.27 (talk) 00:38, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Reference to the WG model should be Webley Green (Edwinson Green) not Webley Government see Gun Digest 2012.

This isolated fragment is not a proper sentence: "The manufacture of revolvers, for which the firm became famous." Dawright12 (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge from flareguns[edit]

AGREE - I think that Webley & Scott Flare Guns should be merged into this article. Arthurrh 21:26, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Closed down or merged?[edit]

The History section says the company "closed down" in 2005. The end of the Production section says "in 2008, Webley sold to Webley (International) Limited but still produces products under the Webley name". This is confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.211.252.59 (talk) 12:27, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I own a Webley Hurricane and when I had sent it off to be repaired some years ago the guy at the shop where I bought it said that the company was then owned by a Turkish business and the airguns were made there. There is very little information about the later years in this article so maybe someone can expand it more. S_peakF_ree ^(talk)_(contribs) 18:03, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]