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The Enfield – Whitworth Rifles

  • 2025-07-19

There were circa 5,500 rifles made by Whitworth and/or the Manchester Ordnance and Rifle Company. Exceeding this figure were the Whitworth rifles made at Enfield and issued for troop trials.

Can anyone help with research on the Enfield – Whitworth rifles?

Patent Assignments 1853-1871

  • 2025-06-24

A.W.F Taylerson commenced extracting data from Patent Office records in respect of the assignment of British patents covering firearms and related inventions. His work had only covered two volumes, 1853-1866 and 1867-1871, when the original records were destroyed in 1963. Taylerson’s work may now be the best remaining source of information on the assignment of such patents.

Cased Whitworth Rifle (B101)

  • 2024-03-28

You are here: Home > Research > Hex Bore > Hex Bore blog The cased Whitworth military target rifle B101 recently re-surfaced. This rifle was recorded by the Whitworth Research […]

Research Projects

  • 2024-02-05

INDEX. Research Press is pleased to support those studying aspects of firearms or associated history. News and progress updates are welcomed if you have a research project with a view to publishing the results.

The Guns of the Ironclad “Riachuelo”

  • 2024-01-07

The Hex Bore project has a good archive / library of Whitworth research material, but now and again something new surfaces.

‘The Guns of the Ironclad “Riachuelo” and Their Alteration to the Armstrong System’ is a treatise by Duarte Huet Bacellar Pinto Guedes, First Lieutenant of the Brazilian Navy.