Add this copy of Colonel Colt, London: the History of Colt's London to cart. $202.00, good condition, Sold by Michael Patrick McCarty, Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New Castle, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Arms and Armour Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; In Very Good+ condition and Very Good dustjacket. The full story of the London Armoury's five years of existence, from 1852 to 1857, chronicling Sam colt's frustrations and triumphs and detailing the revolvers he produced. More than three hundred photographs show every type of gun style to emerge from those years, many of them highlighting specific parts of a weapon; and these supplemented by listings of serial numbers and hitherto unpublished details of identification of immeasurable value to collectors. This book fills a long existing gap in gunmaking history.
Add this copy of Colonel Colt, London: the History of Colt's London to cart. $105.50, very good condition, Sold by Kisselburg Military Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Potomac, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Arms and Armour Press.
Add this copy of Colonel Colt, London: the History of Colt's London to cart. $167.79, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Arms and Armour Press.
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Add this copy of Colonel Colt, London the History of Colt's London to cart. $207.00, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Arms and Armour Press.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Arms and Armour Press, London, UK. 1976. 216 pgs. Illustrated with over 300 b/w illus from photographs and drawings. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The full story of the Colts London Armoury, its five years of existence and details the revolvers he produced. Soon after establishing his Hartford factory, Colt set out to establish a factory in Europe and chose London. He organized a large display of his firearms at the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park, London and ingratiated himself by presenting cased engraved Colt revolvers to such appropriate officials as Britain's Master General of the Ordnance. At one exhibit Colt disassembled ten guns and reassembled ten guns using different parts from different guns. As the world's leading proponent of mass production techniques, Colt went on to deliver a lecture on the subject to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London. The membership rewarded his efforts by awarding him the Silver Telford Medal. With help from ICE secretary, Charles Manby, Colt established his London operation near Vauxhall Bridge on the Thames River and began production on January 1, 1853. On a tour of the factory, Charles Dickens was so impressed with the facilities that he recorded his favorable comments of Colt's revolvers in an 1852 edition of Household Words. The factory's machines mass-produced its parts that were completely interchangeable and could be put together on assembly lines using standardized patterns and gauges by unskilled labor as opposed to England's top gun makers making each part by hand. Colt's London factory remained in operation for only four years. Unwilling to alter his open-top single-action design for the solid frame double-action revolver that the British asked for; Colt scarcely sold 23, 000 revolvers to the British Army and Navy. In 1856 he closed the London plant and had the machinery, tooling, and unfinished guns shipped to Hartford. EB; 4to 11"-13" tall; 216 pages.
