The Webley Alecto ™ Availability: November 2009

Have a look at this passage on the company’s website (News – First 4 passages).

Mike Hurney writes extensively on the company’s website giving the impression that the current owners of the 'Webley' name have a direct relationship with the former owners, this is very clearly a downright lie! Mike Hurney, Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) The current owners of the 'Webley' name are. In 2008, Webley was sold to Webley (International) Limited but still produces products under the Webley name. Webley and Scott has also returned to shotgun production with alliances with European manufacturers, and now markets a number of sporting and competition shotguns (None of which are manufactured in Britain). In early 2007 Webley broke away from its traditional ‘barrel overlever’ design to launch the revised Typhoon model, a ‘break-barrel’ design with a recoil-reduction system. A variety of actions are available in several different models, including the Nemesis, Stinger, and Tempest air pistols and Raider, Venom, and Vulcan air rifles. Webley continues to manufacture air pistols in. Webley’s production originally consisted only of hand-crafted firearms, although British based mass-production was introduced in the 1960’s. It was then bought by Wolverhampton-based company Airgunsport Limited.

Webley’s dependent company - Venom Custom Shop - ceased trading as well. In 1957 Webley amalgamated with W & C Scott and Sons to become The Webley and Scott Revolver and Arms Company Ltd of Birmingham.ĭeclining sales led to the decision to give up firearms manufacture completely in 1979, and Webley then only manufactured and distributed air guns until 22 December 2005, when the company closed down. At that time the company was named Webley & Son. The manufacture of revolvers, for which the firm became famous. It was taken over in 1834 by his son-in-law, Philip Webley, who began producing percussion sporting guns. The Webley company was founded in the early 18th century by William Davies, who made bullet moulds. Apparently the company is now trading from an address in the West Midlands but is having all it’s products manufactured overseas! Is this a British company or not I asked myself? Quite early on it became obvious that many hundreds of threads had been posted by many people on this and other similar forums stating negative things about the company 'Webley'. Upon getting the gun I decided to find out more about the company. I have recently acquired an old little Webley Exocet Carbine in.

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