"his hammerless ejector Express was made using much the same technologies as his first percussion"
Yes and that is precisely it, and that is how certain thins have been writ in stone, with all the positvie and negative results.
The British makers rejected things they could not make, like coil springs, sticking to using construction methods they controlled, ie hand work.
They gave us superbly ergonomic hunting implements, but somewhere along the way we confused the end result with the process used to achieve it, that is our fault not theirs.
