Talk:Webley & Scott

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Contents 1 Merge 2 "top-break" 3 General comments 4 Proposed merge from flareguns

[edit] Merge

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

[edit] "top-break"

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)

[edit] General comments

The article is culled from very a out-of-date source (Bill Dowell's book) and there are more modern books -- e.g. Bruce & Reinhardt (2 vols) + Gordon Bruce's book on the air pistols + Cuthbertson "World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)

[edit] Proposed merge from flareguns

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