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Decent article / post about Purdey

http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2015/09/28/leather-guns-tweed-purdeys-era-audley-house/

Good photos but the ones that bug me are the ones showing shooting scenes promoting the companies clothes; not just Purdey as they all do it, and they show obvious models who would be horrified if they got mud on their shoes or saw any blood and feathers. Might offer myself and two scruffy dogs up as models; that's if I get a free new suit of clothes to take home. :-) Thanks for posting the article up Watson 16. Lagopus.....

I can pretty much say with certainty, if I was carrying a $200,000 Purdey around, I wouldn't get dirty while doing it. I stayed perfectly clean while handling a H&H of about that value as well.

Chuck, if you can afford the $200K, you can afford to have it cleaned!

I snagged a pair of zippered, leather lined, replaceable sole, Hunter Sovereign's, and I can assure you, they are nothing like chore boots from TSC.
Choices make our economy go around.

I don't know anything about the "D-Day invasion was planned in the Long Room". Can anyone clarify that gentleman's post? Where can I read about that?

D-Day planning is mentioned in the below link. "it also played a role in the D-Day landings when Eisenhower�s deputy chief of staff, General Bedell-Smith, used the renowned Long Room for battle planning in 1942"

http://www.thevintagemagazine.com/sports/simply-the-best-purdey-celebrates-200-years-of-excellence/

Yes, I would like to know if there is any other reference about using a commercial building for planning such a highly secret matter especially in 1942. I can not remember anything about that in my readings. Is this just a" Purdey" interpretation of Smith simply going there while in London... When actual discussion was elsewhere?

lagopus - I wouldn't normally argue, .......but I wouldn't want mud on this pair of English doubles

http://www.pikore.com/m/1044951928795038788_201933072

Two of the three Fausti sisters.....The Dubarry Boots girls? ...... no takers

Condor - I tend to agree. Seems like convenient marketing claim. My understanding was that most of Operation Overlord was planned at Camp Griffiss in Brushy Park. That being said, the Blitz had been going on since September of 1940. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that locations moved around in response to the bombing, for some discussions.

This does not directly answer your question, but seems relevant in the context of the forum. E.J. Churchill�s nephew, Robert Churchill, worked closely with the SOE (Special Operations Executive) during the war. Nigel Brown and Michael McIntosh mention this in their respective books. Churchill built a secret manufacturing facility, including a range, beneath its Orange St. location to supply weapons to the SOE. My point being that clandestine activity did take place at commercial locations, but not on the scale of D-Day planning (in my opinion).

Does anyone know about General George Patton�s guns? I know he owned Parkers. A number of books I�ve read about him mention that he shopped for doubles in London and had a few with him in the car on the day he died. He was on his way to a pheasant shoot.