Webley WW1 455 Pistol Stocks

[can14&]

WW1 Webley 455 Pistol Stocks. Found five of them in the 1970s in London,England.

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[Brit plumber]

I think these were for the Flare gun rather than the revolver and if I remember correctly there is a part on the pistol or stock needs to be removed to make them fit.

[mr.e moose]

I have never seen one of those here in Canada. I wonder how much they were actually used.

[breakeyp]

The stock is for the Webley No.1 Mk1 flare gun that uses the same frame as the Mark VI .455 pistol. The frame has a groove machined into the lower part of the grip area. A matching tenon on the stock plate aligns the stock to the frame during recoil. Many people have ground the tenon off or poorly cut a groove to make something to go with the pritchard pistol bayonet. I have seen no published data to legitimize this stock configuration.

[Peter Laidler]

Wasn't this contraption also used on the Webley 1.5" line throwing gun too, used as recently as the 70's or so on lifeboats. I was reliably told by a famed Webley fiend that zillions of the parts were assembled up into complete units from remaining stocks after the Webley factory closed down.