For those of you who don’t know, the Whiting pistol was patented in 1910 by William Whiting, who was then a director of Webley & Scott. The pistol was also adopted by the Royal Horse Artillery and the Royal. ![]() 1 entered police service in 1911 in a.32 ACP model for the London Metropolitan Police.The.455 version was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1912 as the first automatic pistol in British service. The gun was designed in 1910 by the Webley & Scott company. The Webley Self-Loading Pistol was an early magazine-fed pistol. ![]() The Model 1912 6.35mm “Hammerless” Competition in the vest pocket pistol market was quite intense in the second decade of the 20th century, and Webley & Scott thought a “hammerless” model might sell better than their already existing external hammer model. Webley & Scott Automatic Pistols Part 3: 1912-1953.
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