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The Webley Self-Loading Pistol was an early magazine-fed pistol. The gun was designed in 1910 by the Webley & Scott company. 1 entered police service in 1911 in a.32 ACP model for the London Metropolitan Police.The.455 version was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1912 as the first automatic pistol in British service. The pistol was also adopted by the Royal Horse Artillery and the Royal. Up until the mid 1920’s guns were produced as either Webley & Scott or W & C Scott models. Production of Webley & Scott Shotguns continued up until 1978 at which time a seperate company, W&C Scott( Gunmakers) Limited was formed and in 1985 was bought by Holland and Holland.
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Webley Air Pistol
Adopted by the British army in 1915, the Mk VI was intended as an officer's close-in weapon during the seesaw trench warfare of World War I. (Illustration by Gregory Proch)
Birmingham-based P. Webley & Son conceived this most quintessentially British of revolvers in the 1870s, when officers purchased their own personal sidearms. Not until 1887 did the British army officially adopt the top-break, double-action design as the Webley Mk I. Other models soon followed. In 1897 the company merged with W&C Scott & Sons to become Webley & Scott Revolver & Arms Co.
Using a.455-caliber round with a relatively slow muzzle velocity of 620 feet per second, the Webley was not, nor was it meant to be, a long-range firearm. But if an enemy charge came too close, requiring an officer to draw his pistol, it had devastating man-stopping power. In 1913 the army adopted the Mk V, which introduced smokeless cordite ammunition and featured a wider, case-hardened cylinder to withstand the more potent round—just in time for World War I.
Webley Scott Pistol Drawing Kit
The ultimate wartime Webley, adopted by the army on May 24, 1915, was the Mk VI, with a squared-off grip, 6-inch barrel and removable front sight. An optional shoulder stock turned the revolver into a carbine, and the phenomenon of trench raiding prompted the design of a bayonet for the pistol.
Webley Scott Firearms
Webley & Scott manufactured the revolver until 1923, the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock from 1921–26. Together the firms turned out some 125,000 Mk VIs. Though declared obsolete in 1932 and replaced by the .38-caliber Enfield No. 2 Mk I revolver, the familiar .455 Webley remained the favored sidearm of many British officers through World War II, the last models finally being retired in 1947.