Hispano-Suiza have a fascinating history having made not only automobiles and trucks, but also aircraft engines and machine guns so highly regarded that they were used as replacements for John Moses Browning’s .50 BMG. The Hispano-Suiza…
The Lee-Enfield rifle was made in a number of calibers other than the .303 British with which most of us are familiar. One of the better ones for a hunting rifle was the .375 2½” Nitro…
British gunmaker Westley Richards is one of the most highly respected, not only in Britain but in the world. Westley Richards guns tend to be treasured by those who own them, and their web magazine “The…
Wilhelm Brenneke (1865-1951) was a German cartridge designer who’s contribution to the development of sophisticated rifle and shotgun cartridges is largely overlooked outside his native Europe. In the United States shooters are most often only acquainted…
The Pennsylvania Railroad’s T1 duplex steam locomotive is perhaps the most eye-catching, and the most controversial ever created. Engineers at the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and at Baldwin Locomotive Works created a quite complex solution to building…
Singer were and still are world famous for their sewing machines, manufactured at their US plant at Elizabeth, New Jersey. But as the Second World War loomed in 1939 the US Government was already looking for…
