Victorian article on the manufacture of Enfield rifles

[4V50 Gary]

At this link is a Victorian era article on how the P53 Enfield was made:

http://britishmilitarylongarms.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-enfield-rifle.html

 

[Hawg]

Interesting read.

 

[dakota.potts]

Thank you for sharing. This is a very interesting perspective compared to today's manufacturing processes. I can only imagine if we had to pay for each flawed piece of work allowed to move through work today

 

[Model12Win]

Oh, trust me, there were plenty of flawed P53s imported into the US. The ones under various contracts were largely not good.

 

[Hawg]

I've not done much research on these even tho I have one dated 1861 but weren't the parts assembled at the tower armory, else why mark them Tower?
Model 12 is right some of the sub contractors shipped a lot of sub standard pieces. I'm sure the sub contractors didn't hold to the rigorous inspections the RSAF did.