Serial numbers and dates of manufacture for ww greener. Ludwig Bayerl 1910 Rifles & Shotguns Catalog; Adolf Frank Export Company. Single brass bead sight on a solid rib marked with the patent information inside an oval followed by 'WW GREENER 68. Ww Greener Shotguns Serial Numbers. 2/24/2018 0 Comments I now have a side by side double barrel with hammers. It has the serial number 77747 to the rear of the.

Contents • • • • • • • • • History [ ] The history of W.W. Greener begins in 1829, when, who had been working in for, a prominent gun maker, returned to his hometown of and founded the W. Greener company. In November 1844, he determined that most of the materials and components he used for gun making came from, and his business was being hampered by the distance between the two towns. Hence, he moved his business from Newcastle to Birmingham. During the period of 1845-58, W. Greener was appointed to make guns for.

Money obtained from supplying with two-groove rifles enabled the company to erect a factory on 'Rifle Hill',, in 1859. It was around this time that the company began to really prosper. Greener was a firm believer in the concept of and refused to make any. Hence, his son,, struck out a line of his own (the W.W. Greener company) and produced his first breechloader in 1864. When William Greener died in 1869, the two companies were amalgamated together as the W.W. Greener Company, and carried on by William Wellington Greener.

William Wellington Greener was responsible for several innovations, as described in the sections below, and it was on the strength of his inventions that the company became famous. Greener, the company established offices in Birmingham, London,,. William Wellington Greener was succeeded by two of his sons, Harry Greener and Charles Greener. Leyton Greener, Harry's son and fourth generation took over as Chairman in 1951 and today the company has a fifth generation, Graham Greener, as one of its directors. Production [ ] Production of Greener weapons started in 1829, when W. Greener began manufacturing his muzzleloaders. Greener was the first to discard vent holes in breeches.

He was also instrumental in improving the hardness and quality of barrels, by using more steel in their manufacture. He also improved the and his model was the one adopted by the Scottish Fisheries, and is still in use today. His greatest innovation was the invention of the expanding rifle bullet. In 1845-59, W. Greener was appointed to make sporting guns for the Prince Consort. In the 1851 London Exhibition, the company received the highest award 'for guns and barrels perfectly forged and finished'.

In 1853 and 1855, the company received Silver medals at the and Exhibitions. The company's products were also sold for as much as 75 pounds, in the Southern states of America, before the Civil War. Greener did not believe in breechloaders, his son, W.W. Greener started his own factory.

In 1864, he produced his first patent, an under-lever pin-fire half-cocking breechloader with a top bolt entering the barrel underneath the top rib. Greener died in 1869, his son W.W. Greener merged the two companies into one. His next patent was the self-acting striker, followed by a famous cross-bolt mechanism produced as a single top bolt, in 1865. In 1873, this cross-bolt mechanism was combined with the bottom holding down bolts to produce the 'Treble Wedge-Fast' breech action. The treble wedge-fast was one of the strongest breech actions ever invented and was widely copied by other manufacturers, after the patent rights expired. The introduction of in 1874 is regarded as W.W.