Until LeFusil reads my line on Reilly History, Chronology, Serial Numbers, he is just giving an uninformed opinion. Sorry LeF....but that's the way I see it.
Im uninformed? Well Argo, that was kinda of rude. I dont believe I am. I think your grasping at straws trying to make up a fantasy that your favorite gun retailing store, E.M Reilly had an actual factory that made guns. They didnt. They had a retail store. Not arguing that Reilly more than likely did produce some of their own percussion and pin fire guns, in the early to mid 1800s. Ive seen proof of that.
A gunmaking factory that was producing guns from the Victorian to the Edwardian eras in London, that no one ever wrote about...no one ever saw, that no one took a picture of and no one wrote about, a factory that didnt produce any weapons during the war years (that in itself debunks your factory theory, all factory capability was used during the war years and it was highly documented btw)
You have failed to prove it with absolute empirical evidence. Ill stick with the facts, sir.
I think were all done here.
And no, Joe....Reilly or any of their supposed employees didnt hold any significant gun making patents that Im aware of.
