Squire Glenthorne, Do you know who in the British Trade', wrote,"Birmingham Built Guns are the Workhorses not the Thoroughbreds!...But they shoot as straight and last as long as their costly cousins from London!..This is written on a scrap of old sandpaper in my Tool-Box, and was given to me by 'The Late Alf Gritt when I was Stocking a Boss in his Workshop in Winchester, Hampshire.Whilst I was still in the British Army,(Cash under the Workbench)!!!Barry Wilcox, now at Dickson& McNaughton,Scotland.was at that time..a"shop-boy"I think....cc
