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Webley–Fosbery Automated Revolver
Webley–Fosbery Automatic Revolver
Type	Service Revolver
Place of origin	United Kingdom
Production history
Designer	George V. Fosbery
Designed	1895
Manufacturer	Webley & Scott
Produced	1901–1924
No. built	approx 4750
Variants	.455 Webley (6 shot) & .38 ACP (8 shot)
Specifications
Mass	one.24 kg (two.17 lbs.) unloaded
Length	280 mm (xi")

Cartridge	.455 Webley Mk II .38 ACP
Calibre	0.455 in (xi.half-dozen mm) 0.38 in (9.7 mm)
Action	Recoil operated semi-automatic revolver
Muzzle velocity	620 ft/s (190 m/southward)
Feed organisation	6-circular cylinder (.455 Webley) viii-round cylinder (.38 ACP)
Sights	blade (front), U-notch (rear)

The Webley–Fosbery Self-Cocking Automated Revolver is an unusual, recoil-operated, automated revolver designed past Lieutenant Colonel George Vincent Fosbery VC and produced past the Webley & Scott company from 1901 to 1924. The revolver is easily recognisable by the zig-zag grooves on the cylinder.

History [edit]

Semi-automated pistols were simply beginning to appear when Colonel Fosbery (1832–1907) devised a revolver that cocked the hammer and rotated the cylinder by sliding the action, cylinder and butt associates back on the frame. The epitome was a modified Colt Single Activeness Army revolver. Fosbery patented his invention 16 Baronial 1895 and further improvements were patented in June and Oct 1896.^[1]

Fosbery took his design to P. Webley & Son of Birmingham. P. Webley & Son, which merged with W.C. Scott & Sons and Richard Ellis & Son in 1897 to form the Webley & Scott Revolver and Arms Co., was the chief manufacturer of service pistols for the British Army equally well every bit producing firearms for civilian use. Webley farther developed the design and the Webley–Fosbery Automatic Revolver was introduced at the matches at Bisley of July 1900.^[ane]

In civilian use, the Webley–Fosbery was popular with target-shooters. Because the trigger machinery did not rotate the cylinder, shots were smooth and consistent, permitting rapid and authentic shooting. Walter Winans, a famous contemporary target shooter, preferred the Webley–Fosbery, and in 1902 he used it to identify vi shots in a ii-inch (5.1 cm) balderdash'southward-center at 12 paces in seven seconds. Using a Prideaux speedloader he was able to fire twelve shots into a three-inch (7.6 cm) bull's-centre in approximately 15 seconds.^[two]

Wartime usage [edit]

Though Webley viewed this weapon every bit an ideal sidearm for cavalry troops, the Webley–Fosbery was never adopted as an official authorities sidearm. At over eleven inches (28 cm) long and weighing some 44 ounces (1239 grammes) unloaded, the Webley–Fosbery was a heavy and unwieldy sidearm even by the standards of the day. Several models of Webley–Fosbery revolvers were produced, and the type saw express action in the Boer Wars as well equally World State of war I, where some privately purchased examples were carried by British officers in the .455 service chambering.^[three] Reports from the field suggested that the Webley–Fosbery, with its precisely machined recoil surfaces, was more susceptible to jamming in wartime conditions of mud and rain than comparable sidearms of the period. Information technology has been usually declared that the Webley–Fosbery required a tight hold in gild for the cylinder to properly bicycle and erect the weapon.^[three]

Product ceased in 1924, with a total production of less than v,000. Many revolvers remained unsold, and the model was carried in Webley's catalogues every bit late as 1939.^[4]

Webley-Fosbery patent 1897
Webley-Fosbery .455 revolver
Webley-Fosbery .455, variant
.455in SAA Ball .455in SAA Brawl armament
Mauser M78, zig-zag grooves cylinder

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b Kinard, Jeff (2004). Pistols: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. ABC-CLIO. p. 144. ISBN978-ane-85109-470-seven.
^ Foltz, Frederick (1903). "Webley-Fosbery Revolver". In Rodenbough (ed.). Journal of the Military Service Institution. Vol. 23. Military Service Establishment of the United states. pp. 434–436.
^ ^a ^b Earth Guns, Modern Firearms: Handguns - Webley-Fosbery automatic revolver, Retrieved 31-03-2011
^ Gordon, Bruce (1992). Webley & Scott Automated Pistols. Verlag Stocker Schmid. p. 85.

Bibliography [edit]

Dowell, William Chipcase, The Webley Story, (Democracy Heritage Foundation, Kirkland, Washington: 1987)

External links [edit]

Video of a Webley–Fosbery, showing self-cocking action
Behold the Webley-Fosbery
Webley Fosbery Automatic Revolver Caliber .455(U.k.)
Webley Fosbery Automatic Revolver Model 1900