======== Green brothers continued from above ==============

Here are a few of the articles in the English press about the Green Bros invention and Reilly's manufacture of the gun which began in early 1864:

(1). Volunteer Services Gazette, of 12 March 1864:

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(2). 04 April 1864, London Daily News:

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(3). 28 Jul 1864, Morning Post - a report on the beginning of breech loading trials...and first mention of the Snider, which wound up beating out the Green Bros and Reilly for the contract as UK's interim breech loader:

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(4). Here examples the hundreds of Reilly ads run during 1864...he was not shy in promoting this gun...millions of pounds in government contracts were at stake. And you see again the consistent promotion of his testing facility at 315 Oxford Street.

. . . . .London Daily News, 24 April 1864
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. . . . .1865 advertisements:
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