Fast Facts Large bore guns were developed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for water-fowling. These were commonly of 8 bore, 6 bore and 4 bore, sizes usable for firing from the shoulder, and even larger bores for use as punt guns. As British and European settlers became established in the African and Asian colonies ...
Fast Facts The Autech Zagato Stelvio AZ1 was made as a joint project between the Autech performance division of Nissan and the Zagato design house of Milan, Italy. The car was based on the Second Generation Nissan Leopard F31. The Zagato bodywork was all of hand beaten aluminium alloy, in fact the car was hand ...
Fast Facts Winnebago's first effort at a helicopter recreational vehicle was called the Heli-Camper and it was based on the smaller S-55 Sikorsky, whose military designation was the H-19. The Heli-Camper name was dropped in favour of Heli-Home and Winnebago then added a larger model based on the Sikorsky S-58. Despite hopes to the contrary, ...
Fast Facts This 1926 Daimler 45 hp was known as the "Star of India' and was used by the Maharaja of Rewa for tiger hunting. The car's custom bodywork by Barker & Company of London is made of "German Silver" which is an alloy of nickel, copper and zinc, so it does not contain any ...
The Shelby Series 1 was created to be the final crowning glory of Carroll Shelby's life. This was the car of which he said: "I’m tired of imitations. Folks have put the Cobra name on all sorts of stuff over the years but none of them were Shelby Cobras. Before they throw the last shovel ...
I've got a bit of a soft spot for falling block single shot rifles, especially those with a British heritage, no doubt because I spent many years in London as a child and got to visit Thomas Bland and Sons gunshop just off The Strand occasionally. As a result my first centrefire rifle was a ...
The Vincent Black Lightning was the culmination of British designer Phil Vincent's quest to create the world's greatest motorcycle. It was the racing version of his iconic Vincent Black Shadow, stripped of everything not needed on a racing motorcycle, and able to carry its rider up to 150 mph depending on the state of tune ...
Fosberry, his Automatic Revolver, and his Paradox Gun The Holland & Holland Paradox gun was a creation by a man who is also famous for creating another "paradox" of a gun: Fosberry was the inventor of an "Automatic Revolver", something that to many will seem like a combining of two contradictory things - but then that ...
Who was Winston Churchill's preferred gunmaker? Many will assume that he patronized gunmakers who made the best that the pre-war London gun trade could offer: and so names such as Purdey, Holland & Holland or Boss might come to mind. But Churchill was a keen and knowledgeable sporting shooter, and he was a man who ...
A Light Sufficiently Powerful Rifle with Mild Recoil The 6.5x57 Mauser rifle cartridge has been with us for over a hundred years and yet it has not become obsolete. Rifles in 6.5x57 are still made by a number of European manufacturers and in Europe its main competitor is the Scandinavian 6.5x55 Swedish (and Norwegian) which is ...
