Whitworth Research Project – database management summary 2025.
Category: Research
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.
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Spring 2025 Update
A brief news update on Whitworth research, and illustration a newly recorded Whitworth sporting rifle of 1860.
Whitworth Database Updates – 2024
Whitworth Research Project – database management summary 2024.
Cased Whitworth Rifle (B101)
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 […]
Pattern 1863 Enfield-Whitworth Short Rifle
Pattern 1863 Enfield-Whitworth Short Rifle of which something over 8,200 were manufactured during 1863 and 1864 for trials. If you own such a rifle, or the 1862 Enfield-Whitworth, please get in touch.
Research Projects
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”
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.
Whitworth Database Updates – 2023
Whitworth Research Project – database management summary 2023.
Archival Research
One of the great joys of archival research is handling original 19th century documents.
Sir Joseph Whitworth & Company, 1888
Following Sir Joseph Whitworth’s death in 1887, ‘Sir Joseph Whitworth & Company’ was restructured.
The Whitworth is not a ‘Minute of Angle’ Rifle
Misunderstanding of figure of merit has resulted in exaggerated claims of Whitworth rifle accuracy.
A Semi-military Whitworth Rifle (C778)
The finely engraved semi-military rifle C778 was sold by Rock Island Auction Co., 20 May 2023. There was a batch of these engraved rifles with spur trigger guard made around this time (c1862). This particular rifle was formerly in the George W. Wray Jr. collection, Atlanta History Center. It was subsequently sold by Poulin Auction Co, Fairfield, ME, USA, in October 2019.