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Can I get Info on the Maker .. Quailty of their Pieces as it relates to their Peer's ...
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I'm sure others will regail you with facts and figures ,Holloways were a well respected Birmingham trade maker. I bought a leg vice off Graham Holloway in 1977 . Sitll in daily use ,it had "Cyril 1922" stamped on it, never found out who Cyril was though.
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I have 2 vintage G.S. Holloway, Imperial Works, Vesey St., Birmingham catalogs. I'd guess between the wars. No phone number, just - Telegrams "Shooting Birmingham".
Post a photo and I'll see if I have the catalog page. I'll be happy to scan and post.
The catalogs are nice, tied together with green string. But no copywrite data or publishing date I can find.
The catalogs offer replacement Sir Joseph Whitword barrels for 15 gbp. Fitted ejectors were 9 gbp
Joe
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Neet Info... Anymore Offerings..
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From British Gunmakers Vol.2 by Nigel Brown:
"G&S Holloway were largely makers to the trade and had a fine reputation for sound guns. They seem to have had a particularly strong link with the Scottish gunmakers,almost all of whom seemed to have used their services,both before and after WWII."
That should be what you're after.
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Thanks All... Justin...
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Justin,
Recommend the book "Birmingham Gunmakers"; by,Douglas Tate.See pages 71-76 tracing the relationship between Holloway & Co; G.& S.Holloway and Holloway and Naughton.
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Gunman, what is a leg vice exactly?, close enough will do me  Is it perhaps a vice with jaws set in the vertical,like a 1/4 turn left or right from the normal horizontal? Or doo you use your leg somehow in its use? Just curious, thanks Franc
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Franc Otte,
Just in case Gunman misses your post, I will take an educated guess that he refers to a vice where the jaws are hinged to each other well below the the level of the bench. This gives them a scissor action as opposed to the parallel action of a normal engineering vice.
A similar system is used to join soft jaws for a gunsmith's vice, essentually so the jaws can be inserted and removed from the vice as one piece as circumstances dictate. They are often sprung apart so to open and close with the vice without having to be attached to the jaws.
I appologise if I have got this wrong and await correction.
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Thanks Roy, I keep the Tate book too deep in the rack to use as a reference and that is obviosly a mistake.
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