Westley Richards is a British manufacturer of guns and rifles and also a well established gunsmith. The company was founded in 1812 by William Westley Richards, who was responsible for the early innovation of many rifles used in wars featuring the British Army during the 1800s. It remained in the hands of the Richards family until it was purchased by Walter Clode in 1957. Currently the company has two listed directors, Alexander Clode and Sheikh Sultan Bin Jassim Al Thani of Qatar.[1][2] The company has received a number of royal warrants since 1840.
Famous gun owners have included Ernest Hemingway, Maharaja of Alwar and actor Stewart Granger. Today, Westley Richards is one of the oldest surviving traditional gun and rifle makers in England. In 2009, the company diversified into a number of other markets, including country clothing.
WestleyRichards is a British manufacturer of guns and rifles and also a well established gunsmith. The company was founded in 1812 by William Westley...
William WestleyRichards (24 November 1789 – 11 September 1865) was a British firearms manufacturer and founder of WestleyRichards. Richards was born...
JBR in the early 1880s. The design is a modified version of the 1869 WestleyRichards patented design. Fadala, Sam (2006). The Complete Blackpowder Handbook...
coach and executive William Westley Guth (1871–1929), American attorney, Methodist minister, and academic William WestleyRichards (1789–1865), British firearms...
strength and reliability of the percussion muzzleloader. In 1858, WestleyRichards patented the break-open, top leaver breech-loading action, whilst a...
pure lead bullet that was accurate to ranges up to 150 yd (140 m), WestleyRichards developed a 12 bore loading that fired a 735 gr (47.6 g) LT-capped...
the Second Boer War, the republics' most popular rifle was the .450 WestleyRichards, a falling-block, single-action, breech-loading model rifle, with accuracy...
.475 Nitro Express, Eley Brothers the .475 No 2 Nitro Express and WestleyRichards the .476, with the .470 NE becoming the most popular). .400 also gained...
The last remaining large gun and rifle manufacturer in the area is WestleyRichards. Due to the UK's tight laws regarding gun ownership, including sporting...
rifles, reportedly selling around 5,000 of them in the late 1800s. WestleyRichards and W.W. Greener were also noted for their rook rifles. Rook rifles...
actions, created by two gunsmiths, Anson and Deeley, working for the Westley-Richards company in 1875. The contribution of Anson and Deeley was in the simple...
.475 Nitro Express, Eley Brothers the .475 No 2 Nitro Express and WestleyRichards the .476 Nitro Express, with the .470 NE becoming the most popular...
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