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David, the Winter 2007 issue of DGJ carries an article on Jim Hall's Parker AAH that, as I remember, was the first Parker to sport Whitworth barrels. I can't locate my copy however, so I don't know the serial number.
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Almost 36K for cut barrels! That why it's been there for a while.
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W.& C. Scott Gunmakers used Sir Joseph Whitworth's Fluid Compressed Steel Barrels, starting in 1882
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Sal......Theres a turn in the history books! Would be most interested in your further Info'I was asked a question here, Did any of the London Gunmakers run there machine-shops with Steam-Power?Thought this question might be "Up your Alley"? Pictures would be "Grand"(So much to learn, So little time.) cc/dt
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The first I see L C Smith offering Whitworth in ads or catalogs is 1894.
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cc/dt
Certainly we Blackcountry artisans used water power in the gunmaking industry, barrel forging etc.,in fact there is an Industrial Estate at Halesowen that was built around a river to power the machinery and many outworkers set up around that brook including Brett Parsons Leatherwork, Brady's, Clive Lemon et.al.
I don't know about 'The Smoke' guntraders as my Bonneville,Bullet, and Rocket only ever made it to the Ace Cafe at Watford.Any way your older than me.Ha Ha.
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Can you imagine some jamoke taking a hacksaw to a set of Whitworth tubes on an AAHE Parker?
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Waterpower as source of industrial power for weapon factories was well developed by at latest, mid 1600s, even in remote Sweden. Don't know when steam was displacing water power. Interior layout of factories did not change much because of transition to steam. Both power sources were external to workshop buildings.
What steam did allow was more flexibility in locating major weapons factories. No longer needed to find nice river or build dam to have power. Steam also allowed, at least in principle, factories to operate independent of rivers icing up, of droughts, of flood damage.
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I found a couple pages loose from a DGJ...on one was an article by david truesdale entitled "Why Parker"...seems he is a Lefever fan & was correcting facts in an earlier parker[spring 2002] piece.
he says lefever had first whitworth tubes in1889 ..parker in1894
if that helps any
cheers fanc
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