Guns and Shooting Gunmaking, etc. 95 



1043. SIGHT-MAKING MACHINERY. An introductory account 

 of Messrs. Muir & Co.'s improved machinery for the 

 manufacture of rifle sights. By G. F. Partinyton. 

 London, 1857. Printed for private circulation. Svo, 

 40 pp., woodcuts. 



1044. BULLET-MAKING MACHINE. Illustrated descriptions 

 of Ward's bullet machine, shell-moulding machine, 

 and self-centering railway turn-table. London, 1863. 

 Demy Svo, 12 pp., plates. 



1045. GUN TRADE. London Gunmakers' Company. The 

 best account of this Company, its charter, its history, 

 its powers, its revenue, and its work, is given in the 

 Export of the Royal Commission on the City Com- 

 panies, vol. iii., 1884. 



1046. GUN TRADE. THE CASE OF THE GUNMAKERS. A 

 petition by the London Gunmakers' Company asking 

 that the importation of weapons may be discontinued 

 and the sale of foreign-made small arms prohibited. 

 Single sheet folio, 1680 (Brit. Mus. Collection). 



1047. GUN TRADE. THE CASE OF THE COMPANY OF GUN- 

 MAKERS OF LONDON. This petition refers to the one 

 presented in 1680, and complains that arms were 

 bought and paid for in cash in Holland ; that English 

 arms were not ordered, and for those ordered and 

 delivered payment could not be obtained, ,30,000 

 being then due to the Company from the Government. 

 Single sheet folio, 1710 (Brit. Mus. Collection). 



1048. GUN TRADE, BIRMINGHAM. The best account of 

 the introduction of the firearms trade into Bir- 

 mingham, and its progress, is contained in an article 

 contributed by F. Godwin, F.S.A., to The Gentleman's 

 Magazine of February 1869. 



1049. GUN TRADE. The Gunsmiths' Queries. This is 

 a political tract rehearsing the facts given in the 

 petitions of 1706 and 1710, and still further com- 

 plaining of the support given to foreign manufacturers, 



