I would describe William Evans in modern day parlance as 'The Lexus' of the gun trade.A company who provided THEIR customers with a customised gun.William didn't have the overheads of maintaining a factory or staff.
Any one who doubts the abilities and qualities of Westley Richards, Webley, W.C.Scott, W.W.Greener obviously knows very little about quality and the guntrade.What needs to be realised is that at its Zenith the Birmingham guntrade covered a very small geographical area and no doubt the artisans employed as dayworkers plied their trade to whoever and where ever they could, remember many of these men had a wife and eight or so offspring to feed.It was the craftsmen who had the skill not the Manufacturer.
Churchill, Wm. Evans,were the egotistical salesmen, Webley, Greener, & Westley were the engineering pioneers of the gun trade followed by Beesley, Roberts,Woodward.Although it would be fair to say that most Birmingham Gunmakers' motto should have been 'We have the solution, what is your problem'.
Let us not forget that outstanding work is currently being turned out by Greener,AA Brown, T R White, David Sinnerton plus a dozen or so more without mentioning H&H, Purdey,Boss,Watson, Aitken Grant, Cogswell who are all still beavering away.
