Hollis was a large company and capable of building anything, gun wise. It makes sense that Hollis made the gun under written Patent agreements with Westley Richards or earlier with Anson and Deeley. Some agreements were with Deeley, only. I had about 13 original agreements with Deeley, Anson and Deeley, Anson and Deeley with Westley Richards, and others like Turner, Prybill, Scott, Harrington and Richardson, etc. There must have been many others. Harrington and Richardson produced the entire guns in the U.S. under the direction of Deeley who came to the U.S. to supervise. Patent use numbers for the H and R were to be the guns serial numbers.
Other agreements with WR and other makers demanded that the "other maker" bring the guns to WR for inspection of the Patent Uses and numbering. This also applied to Scott, who probably made a huge quantity of guns with the Patent uses. So much so, that later Scott was allowed to do all inspection in house without bringing guns to the WR premises.
I can only guess that WR had agreements with Continental makers that were similar to Scott's later agreement.
