PeteM
I was impressed by your excellent review of J.V.Needham. Over the years various articles have reviewed Needham,s relationship with gunmaker George Hinton,here are some of the points raised by others.
In The British Shotgun,Vol;2 by David J. Baker and I.M.Crudgington,On Pages 174&175 there is a review of the ejectors patented by Joseph Needham.According to I.M.Crudgington; a gunmaker by the name of George Hinton [Active as an independent maker at 88 1/2 Aston Street Birmingham,circa 1867]Who joined Needham and worked there for 20 or more years and is believed to have played an important role in perfecting Needhams ejector patent.In any event it would seem that Needham shared the royalties from the patent with George Hinton. By 1885 Hinton,s income was enough to allow him to relocate from Birmingham and purchase the business of George Sheppard a gunmaker of of Taunton.
Hinton is recorded as being in business under his own name at
5,Fore Street,Taunton for more than 40 years.
Boothroyd also records," That George Hinton was the first "maker" of the origional ejector!"
