Following trials of various submitted designs Jacob Snider's cartridge conversion was selected and in September 1866 the. In 1865 the British began to seriously look for a breech-loading replacement of their Enfield 1853 Pattern rifle muskets. In early 1864 the armies of Europe were shocked by the decisive victory the Prussian Dreyse Needle Guns brought during the Danish-Prussian War. Thus 13333 should have been made about May 1864. Edit: Per subsequent post, Reilly did not start manufacturing this gun until April was trialed in June.
#British enfield 303 serial numbers serial#
As such it is a definitive date "marker" for serial numbers. This is an 1862 Green Brothers Patent gun one of the first - serial numbered by Reilly and appropriately engraved. On the bolt also is Reilly's name and address along with Green Bros' with license #23 - one of the first produced. The Green Bros gun did very well but ultimately lost out to the Snider Enfield.ġ3333.577 percussion cap breech loader on the Green Brothers Patent marked E.M Reilly & Co., 502 New Oxford St., London on the rib behind the ladder sight and on the bolt. In 1865 the Green brothers (possibly with Reilly as a silent partner?) submitted the gun for testing when British Ordinance, panicked by the 1864 Prussian victory over the Danes using breech-loading needle fire guns, decided Britain needed a breech loader. Reilly produced one (surviving) gun on the Green brothers patent which he serial numbered.
#British enfield 303 serial numbers full#
AND J., took out a provisional patent on a breech loader and in 1862 received the full patent.
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