Oh...it's a Mark "VI"...how interesting...

[krinko]

Got a very nice 1918 Webley Mk "VI" yesterday---



Excuse the dried oil all over it, it's been in a collection since 1961 or so.
Here's the unusual bit---



The lion is a Norwegian Army sold out of service mark, in this case from the 1950s.
Otherwise, a regular, boring old Mark "VI".

(Why is the VI in quotes? Is it only allegedly a Mark VI?)


-----krinko

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[browningautorifle]

Why is the VI in quotes?

It's just how they marked them. Nice looking revolver. Peter's favorite...

[krinko]

"It's just how they marked them."



Well, it's how they marked some of them.
-----krinko

[25-5]

I like it. Thanks

[CINDERS]

What amazed me with the Webley is a say a longish cylinder for such a dumpy round, my 357 S&W's the projie was not that far from the cyl face and the forcing cone, wonder why the Brits did that PL?

[browningautorifle]

If you look at the earlier Model 19 S&W or Model 13 S&W for instance, you'll see the cylinder is much longer. One of the changes was to reduce the length of the cylinder, therefore saving so much steel over the manufacture of so many guns, therefore you can make another part that saves money...or makes more money. These guys just hadn't arrived at that point at this time.

[Peter Laidler]

According to our teaching from many years ago, revolver theory, the length of a revolver cylinder is all relative to the bullet acceleration and what is known as 'shot start pressures' and bullet distortion. All that is something to do with enabling a gradual engraving of the bullet as it enters the rifling cone............. blah blah blah and the unspun distance the bullet travels, accelerating as it goes, before it does so. And all that crap. That I learned parrot fashion and later had to re-learn for real on a design course. Phew....... How do I remember all of this mind numbing stuff!

The thing about these revolvers is the quality of the steel. Or should that read, the LACK of quality of the steel. I have cut a few up and sectioned a few too as presentation pieces. The steel is one step DOWN from mild steel!

[browningautorifle]

The steel is one step DOWN from mild steel!

I had a Webley in .38 once that we decided to line both cylinder and barrel to make a .22 out of. Nothing wrong with the revolver other than it was ugly. It functioned to an end, but had a less than stellar trigger that I attempted to stone a touch. As Peter states, they are made of the finest beer cans and bailing wire melted down and machined. It then had not just one creep in the pull but about three hoops as it changed almost daily in it's pull. I sold it to my CO...

[krinko]

Yes, they're plenty soft until somebody smacks you with one of them. I am sure the holster guides are good for a depressed skull fracture, at the very least.
-----krinko

[browningautorifle]

Yes, they're little better than a club...if you say so. I think Peter and I are talking a bit beyond that.