GUN MAKERS OF BIRMINGHAM, 1660-1960.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKenna, Joseph.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Firearms industry and trade--England--Birmingham--History.

Firearms industry and trade.

History.

England--Birmingham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : MCFARLAND, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Early Years

2. A Period of Transition

3. The Triumph of the Birmingham ­Gun Makers

4. Two World Wars

5. Postwar Decline

6. The Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960

7. Black Country Gun Workers

Appendix I: "Brown Bess" by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Appendix II: Birmingham Gun Firms at the Great Exhibition, 1851

Appendix III: Chronological Location of Manufacturers in the Gun Quarter, 1777-1957

Appendix IV: Displacement of Gun Making Firms and Subsidiaries, Owing to the Cutting of the Inner Ring Road

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

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ISBN:

9781476641461

1476641463

Publisher Number:

99986973997

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