Condition: Good – 380 Pages
The British Falling Block Breechloading Rifle from 1865 is compilation of 35 years of collecting and research. It is enhanced with numerous pictures, schematics and data charts.
The contents include the following:
- The Alexander Henry Rifles
- The Alexander Henry Military Contract Rifles, 1866-1880
- Some Early and Rare Falling Block Designs
- The Soper Falling Block of 1865
- Joseph Manton’s Falling Block of 1871
- Thomas Bailey’s Patent of 1871
- James Aston’s Falling Block Rifles of 1871
- The Farquharson Patent of 1872, and the John Farquharson, George Gibbs, Thomas Pitt and William Ellis Metford Patent of 1875
- Westley Richards & Co Falling Block Rifles 1872-1897
- William Field and the Field Action of 1877
- James MacNaughton’s Rifles of 1879
- The Daniel Fraser Rifle of 1880
- The Rigby-Banks Falling Block
- Holland & Holland and the Holland/Woodward Patent, 1894
- The Charles Ingram-Julius Coster Rifle of 1897
- Webley Rifles of 1897 & 1902
- Birmingham Small Arms (BSA Guns Ltd) Norman Falling Block Design of 1921-22
- Foreign Actions used by British Makers – The Comblain
- Foreign Actions used by British Makers – The Heeren Action
- Foreign Actions used by British Makers – The Jeffery-Sharps
- Thomas & JS Turner Ltd & the “PD” Farquharson by WJ Jeffery & Others
- Recent Developments – The JS Shirley Action & Giles Whitcome Rifles
- Appendix A – Patents or Inventions Abridgements of Specifications Class 119 Small-Arms 1855-1921
Printed in 1997 – Second Edition – 380 pages – Hard bound with dust cover. Condition: Very Good.
