Tamid: Remington, like everyone else, sourced their pattern welded tubes from Belgium
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DaS94GLQ9b3w9XRU4cBX7M0LUIB_mTDFpvSZxCmUQME/editMy Remington verbiage; all felt to be domestically produced
The Remington (hammer) Model of 1889 No. 1 with “
Decarbonized Steel” was offered until 1908.
The Remington No. 3 Model of 1893 single was listed with “
Blue Steel” and No. 9 Model of 1902 with “
Special Steel”. The No. 9 hang tag (courtesy of David Noreen) states: “The barrels of this gun have been THOROUGHLY TESTED and are guaranteed for all standard brands of Smokeless and Black powder, when properly - but not excessively, loaded.” The maximum load was 3 1/4 Dr. Eq. of Bulk or Dense Smokeless powders.
It is assumed the
Remington Steel used on the A Grade Hammerless Model of 1894 starting in 1897, K Grade (Model 1900) Hammerless, and (1894) Hammerless Grade “F.E.” Trap Gun (introduced in 1906) is similar to Marlin Decarbonized “Special Rolled Steel” and Winchester “Rolled Steel”. The 1897 Remington catalog stated “Remington blued steel barrels are manufactured in our own works” and the Sears catalog No. 112 c. 1902 states the K Grade has “fine Decarbonized steel barrels”.
A Model 1894 A Grade with Remington Steel barrels would be an ‘AR’.
Remington introduced
Ordnance Steel for the (Model 1894) Hammerless Double in 1897. The 1902 catalog stated the Remington Ordnance Steel tensile strength was 110,000 psi. “Ordnance” was stamped on the top of the barrel tubes on the AO-/AEO-Grade and BO-/BEO-Grade guns. On the CO-/CEO-Grades and higher the words “Remington Arms Co.” were engraved on top of the right barrel and “Ilion, N.Y. U.S.A.” with “Ordnance” below on the left barrel (courtesy of David Noreen).
In 1918-19 Remington offered an Ordnance Steel barrel in place of the regular Remington Steel barrel on the No. 10 pump and No. 11 autoloading gun for an extra $9.75.
It is possible that Remington provided some of the Decarbonized (Bessemer) tubes used by other U.S. makers.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dnRLZgcuHfx7uFOHvHCUGnGFiLiset-DTTEK8OtPYVA/edit George: quite a bit about Sanderson on my link the post above. Despite the marketing, there is no evidence Sanderson, Halcomb, or Crucible made the "rough forged tubes" for Hunter Arms, Ithaca, or anyone else.
