Gun Making: Lock, Stock, & Barrel (1956) | British Pathé
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2014
- This remarkable footage from 1956 details the process of how sporting guns are hand made from the stock to the barrel.
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(FILM ID:113.15)
London.
Guns are tailor made for customers at a West End gunsmith. Various shots of a customer testing a gun for size and the gunsmith altering the angle of the stock in relation to the barrel. The gunsmith uses an adjustable gun issued only for fitting customers.
Various shots of the gunsmith measuring and altering the gun. We then see men in the workshop tailor making a gun. Various shots of a craftsman at work. His name is Arthur Gwynn. We see how specialised gun making is as narrator explains how long it takes. Ebenezer Hands - 68 years old - works on another gun. Several different men are seen at work on the guns. Charlie Ganderton tests the ejectors and trigger pressure.
The gunsmith feels that the human eye is more accurate than a machine. Narrator states: "sporting guns will last a lifetime if looked after... symbols of the best in British craftsmanship..."
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England has and will always make the best shotguns.
What a pleasure to watch! So much experience...now gone of course.
Never gone my friend. It shall return
Holland and Holland, Purdy, Rigby Westly Richards and Boss are still hand made.
I meant the guys in the video...I assumed they will be long dead...and their experience will have died with them
@@CarlGuymer1 but everything they knew they passed on to their apprentices. I worked 30 years as a barrelmaker for Purdeys and passed on that knowledge to the new generation.
@Anne Camille Barairo try £150,000 for a new gun.
2:15 made by hand because eyes are more accurate than machine. Machines have come a long way since then but the statement still has its place.
No longer true, of course.
@@wholeNwon i would say it is true only in the way that I can one time make one thing more accurately than a machine but that machine make nearly as accurately 100 fold the same thing.
That guy checkering started making stocks in 1888….that’s insane
Old guns are asome.
Yes, until they backfire & blow up in your face
@@royalbloodedledgend Have it inspected and use the correct ammunition. Problem solved
Beautiful. Both the craftsmanship and the product are amazing.
Fine craftsmanship.
I just love the 1950s British accent
It's a big place Britain. Can you be any more vague?
Its just an Atlantic accent, pretty much every show was in this accent back in the day (uk and usa), not many actually spoke like this
very nice work
That was a real treat, in colour too! Purdey's I presume?
Elsewhere there is a reply also 8 years ago, stating this is Grant & Lang Co.
When people had taste
My great grandfather and grandfather had this type bore 16 rifle
It’s a shotgun not a rifle.
@@senseibo4401 not true. These are bore rifles
@@MrSteelermania they are showing shotguns not rifles.
@@senseibo4401 my mistake I thought you were referring to the original comment
@@MrSteelermania 👍🏼, I was a barrelmaker for James Purdey and sons for 30 years.
Jolly splendid stuff!
Very very beautiful gun
A job worth doing is a job worth doing well.🤯🧠🇬🇧
The classic British Gun, a good old Double Barrel Shotgun or Rifle.
Guns are beautiful objects. I remember drawing a realistic pistol when I was an artsy teenager and my leftist mom scolding me because guns are dangerous and I shouldn't be glorifying them. Gee it's not like drawings can kill, couldn't you at least praise your daughter for doing a good job? 🤣
"Oh no, its a fully automatic paper cut" 🤣
Not Purdey but Grant & Lang. Go Ebenezer!!!
1000 pound in 1956 that like the same price as jaguar e type
I dis the calculations with an inflation chart
$18250 in todays dollars or about 25000 pounds!
And they both were effective in pulling "birds".
When this country was cool
Nine months to make. Good luck!
Interesting
That guy looks good for 84.
3:31 Get off my lawn
Is that shop where the gun is being fitted to the customer Boss and co. ?
Like.
That's how American companies used to make guns before 1964
A lot of stuff was better before 1964
Ebenezer Hands
Will last LONGER than your life time, if they are taken care of, correction...
Probably a hundred thousand per gun today
To save people looking £1,000 for a pair of guns, is the equivalent to £26,465 in 2020. Today a SINGLE gun will cost you £30,000+ !!!!!
Try £150,000 for a new gun from Purdey.
@@senseibo4401 I know but this gun wasn't made by Purdey but by Grant and Lang (now Atkin Grant & Lang).
@@paulus12345 true, but I have made barrels for them.
@@senseibo4401 WOW!!!!!!!! I have a couple of 12 bore guns but they are cheap side by side, but I prefer using my over & under .410, BUT the squirrels don't like it! :-)
@@paulus12345 I was a gunmaker for Purdey, 30 years as a barrelmaker.
Igazi mestermunka.... Kár, hogy a legtöbbünknek marad a sorozat gyártott tömegtermék.. :(
I sale my beljium made double barrel shotgun
costs 1000 pounds in 1956??? thats over 35000 american dollars today!
That’s about normal for a good side by side
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