Originally Posted By: treblig1958
however how can we find out who built OWD's pic of a sidelocked Westley Richards???


Get me a serial # and I'll try to find out. In the meantime I will hazard a guess. If it is a pre-war gun, and esp a pre-First War gun, it will (almost) certainly have been built in-house, or finished out in-house and perhaps on an action in-the-white supplied by the trade -- maybe Phillipsons but who knows as yet. It is only in the wreckage following the Second World War that WR would have outsourced an SLE -- and even then if it were to AA Brown's, the latter's factory would have been within the WR factory grounds. These days they (WR) are again building their SLEs in-house again -- though any gunmaker on the bench there will tell you the hand-detachable is harder to make.