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Whitworth rifles at Altcar, 1876

I recently acquired a shooters record book. Largely not used but there are several pages from 1876 and 1877 that are filled in. Interestingly, records for shooting in August and September 1876 at Altcar show entries for two numbered Whitworth rifles – no. 534 & no. 773.

The Enfield – Whitworth Rifles

There were circa 5,500 rifles made by Whitworth and/or the Manchester Ordnance and Rifle Company. Exceeding this figure were the Whitworth rifles made at Enfield and issued for troop trials.

Can anyone help with research on the Enfield – Whitworth rifles?

Whitworth Database Updates – 2025

Whitworth Research Project – database management summary 2025.

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.

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.

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