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	Royal Small Arms Factory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A UK government-owned rifle factory, which was to be later known as the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF), Enfield which has produced British military rifles and muskets since 1804.
		Two other Royal Ordnance Factories were set up in World War II to manufacture rifles designed at Enfield, and to greatly increase its capacity: ROF Fazakerley and ROF Maltby.
		The Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield and Its Workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Small_Arms_Factory (520 words)

	Royal Small Arms Factory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		RSAF Enfield was established in 1804 at Enfield Lock, near London.
		They were able to turn out 2,000 magazine rifles a week to arm the British soldiers, This figure included the bayonets, scabbards, and accessories for the rifles.
		During WWII, RSAF Enfield was involved in the production of machine guns, pistols and receivers, barrels and furniture for the No1 MkIII* rifle.
	www.geocities.com /smlemk3/RSAFENFIELD.html (301 words)

	History
		The RSA Factory was originally established for manufacturing and assembling the "Brown Bess" muskets which were the main firearm of the British Empire for many years.
		The factory was originally powered by waterwheels driven by the River Lea and both raw materials and finished weapons were transported by barge.
		The workers at the R.S.A.F. formed something of a working class elite in East Enfield, the factory had a trade union branch as early as 1855 and the workers were responsible for setting up the Enfield Highway Co-operative Society in 1872.
	www.eivral.com /history.htm (1814 words)

	FN MAG GPMG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The gun intri-gued Allied small arms technologists who wanted to convert it for use by their troops.
		The front arms of the locking lever are pinned to the bolt body where they ride and rotate in recesses on each side.
		The current L7A2, as manufactured by Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) at Enfield Lock, differs in several minor, but significant ways from the FN produced weapon.
	www.remtek.com /arms/fn/mag/index.htm (5289 words)

	List of Changes - weapons & equipment
		To be shortened one inch from heel-plate to trigger guard, in arms of future construction, reducing the length from 14 to 13 inches.
		The sliding lids of small arm ammunition boxes, when first issued, are, in future, to be secured by a brass screw, the head of which is covered by a seal.
		This differs from the pattern heretofore in use in having a small disc of brass dropped ito the opening shaped to fit on the nipple after the leather is fixed.
	hicketypip.tripod.com /equiphoto/loc.htm (3028 words)

	Enfields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The rifle muskets generally referred to as Enfields got their name from the British government's Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, England.
		The Enfield was adopted by the British army in 1855 and served as the army's general infantry weapon until the abolition of the breech-loader in 1867.
		Only the Royal Small Arms Factory had machinery capable of producing weapons with interchangeable parts; private contractors finished their weapons by hand.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /ArtilleryAndArms/enfields.html (339 words)

	British_Enfield_Oiler_Makers
		In 1906 RSAF Sparkbrook was sold to the Birmingham Small Arms Co. As the plant was less than a mile from BSA's Small Heath plant, the facility was used for general engineering work, rather than small arms production, although a few SMLE Mk I* rifles were produced there in 1906 (marked BSA SPARKBROOK).
		The Birmingham Small Arms Co. was formed in 1861 and construction of the plant at Small Heath began that same year.
		The London Small Arms Company was formed in 1866 and had their factory at the Victoria Mills, Old Ford Road, in London until 1921 when they moved to the Albion Works, Ossary Road.
	www.enfield-stuff.com /oilers/makers_marks/oiler_makers_England.htm (1704 words)

	Historic Firearm of the Month, July 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		VI was undertaken by the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) at Enfield Lock.
		IV revolvers were sent to the Small Arms School in March, 1924, and underwent trials from September 4th to 11th, 1924.
		RSAF Enfield was to prove unable to keep up with the demand for pistols caused by the Second World War.
	www.cruffler.com /historic-july99.html (886 words)

	Royal Enfield Motorcycles
		Royal Enfield was the make of the Enfield Cycle Company, an English engineering company.
		The first automotive vehicles with the Royal Enfield History name were produced in 1898 - a quadricycle with a De Dion-Bouton 2.75 hp engine.
		The Redditch factory ceased production in 1967 and the Bradford-on- Avon factory closed in 1970, which was the end of the British Royal Enfield.
	www.ohararestorations.com /html/royal_enfield.html (718 words)

	Project X The Enfield Small Arms Factory.
		When the factory was closed the people who had the job of emptying it said it looked like the workers were on a fire drill.
		By 1818 the reduction in demand for small arms meant that there were just thirty men employed at the Enfield factory.
		The Enfield Lock plant was closed almost immediately and small arms manufacture was moved to Nottingham.
	www.project-x.org.uk /enfieldsmallarms.html (388 words)

	Off Target (Lengthy tale about Britain's SA-80 'rifle') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The British have not excelled at designing small arms since the muzzle-loading era, and most of their small arms over the last 150 years have been foreign designs which they somewhat modify and then slap a British name on.
		The makers and army bureacrats simply didn't know enough about modern small arms to know what was desirable and what was wrong, and didn't care to find out (if they did they never would have used the AR-18 as a starting point).
		Small arms are simple machines and it doesn't take much engineering skill to design one.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/769464/posts (5242 words)

	Weapons of the Civil War
		This list is by no means all inclusive...that would almost be impossible since arms ranged from shotguns to repeating rifles and "machine guns" (gatling type weapons), swords to grapeshot, wooden side paddlers to iron plated bemoths.
		The sharpshooter thus armed was considered an independent character, used only for special service, with the privilege of going to any part of the line where in his own judgement he could do the most good.
		Though the rifle could be fired rapidly, it was much slower to load than other breech-loading weapons and it had the unfortunate tendency to fire all of its cylinders at one time, often removing fingers from the rifleman's forward hand.
	members.tripod.com /~ProlificPains/wpns.htm (3337 words)

	A Brief History of Enfield Rifles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Beginning in 1901, trials were conducted at the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) in Enfield on the new short rifle, resulting in the adoption in December 1902 of the Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk I. (marked "SHT L.E." and "I").
		Manufactured by the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield, this new rifle was designated the.276-Inch Enfield Magazine Rifle, or as it is more commonly known, the Pattern 1913 rifle.
		In December 1945 Small Arms Ltd. ceased operations, and the Long Branch factory was operated after that by the Small Arms Division of Canadian Arsenals Ltd. (CAL).
	www.webpages.uidaho.edu /~stratton/history.htm (3551 words)

	Factsheets Database - Lee Enfield (Bolt Action Rifle) - Powered by ReviewPost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Replacing this with a new square-shaped rifling system designed at the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) Enfield solved the problem, and the Lee-Enfield was born.
		Small numbers of Lee-Enfield rifles were also built with or converted to an experimental semi-automatic loading system, the best-known of which was the Charlton Automatic Rifle, designed by a New Zealander.
		At some point after the Korean War (probably 1963), the Ishapore Rifle Factory in India began producing a new type of rifle known as the Rifle 7.62mm 2A, which is a SMLE reworked to use the 7.62 mm NATO round.
	www.trackpads.com /factsheets/showproduct.php/product/494 (4239 words)

	The Federal Enfield by Tony Beck
		When federal and state purchasing agents descended on merry old England, they found an arms industry quite different from that in the U.S. The Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield had been established for only about 50 years at the outbreak of the War Between the States.
		For most of the 19th century, the armory was mainly a center for ordinance research and a depot for parts made by a wide array of contractors.
		The largest was the "Birmingham Small Arms Trade" of that city, which grew into BSA.
	www.civilwarguns.com /enf2a1.html (1195 words)

	Royal Ordnance Factory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories in and after World War II.
		The Royal Arsenal designed many of the ROFs and was also the agent for the construction of all of the Rifles ROFs, the Medium Machine ROF and the Small Arms Ammunitions ROFs.
		The small number of ROFs involved in nuclear weapons production, ROF Burghfield and ROF Cardiff, were removed from ROF management and did not pass over to Royal Ordnance upon privatisation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Ordnance_Factory (1173 words)

	Nase noviny - Bren Light Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The basic mechanism and the curved magazine were preserved, some elements, such as the delicate drum backsight, however, had to be removed.
		That was why it was given the name comprising the first two letters of the armaments factories at Brno (BR), where it was developed, and Enfield (EN), where it was later produced.
		The gun was received well when it came into service, but after the French defeat and the British evactuation from Dunkirk, a large number of machine guns and ammunition fell into German hands, where it was re-designated Leichte MG 138(e).
	www.nasenoviny.com /brenEN.html (394 words)

	The Civil War! - A Thinkquest 99' Project
		In fact, it was a six-sided bolt from a Rebel sharpshooter that killed Union General "Uncle John" Sedgwick during the fighting at Spotsylvania Court House just after he had remarked to a frightened soldier that Confederate sharpshooters could not hit an elephant.
		It was made in the North at a cost of $15 to $20 to the federal government at the Springfield Armory in Mass.
		Although called Enfields, they were not made in Enfield since the British government, as owner of the factory, was sensitive about maintaining neutrality and could never sanction such sales to either North or South.
	library.thinkquest.org /27411/shoulderarms.html (876 words)

	British Army: 1939-45
		A small force was also sent to Greece in March 1941 but it was soon forced to retreat.
		These were expensive and in 1940 they switched to the Sten Gun made by the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield.
		The gun had a massive bolt inside a tubular casing with the barrel fixed to the front and the magazine feeding from the left side where it could be supported on the firer's forearm.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWbritishA.htm (929 words)

	Banned Guns '94 Fal Article Pg 4- Entreprise Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Australia, this had the effect of developing an underground arms market in which fully-automatic weapons — which abound in that part of the world after forty years of wars — have replaced semiautomatics as the weapons of choice.
		A very small number of Australian “pattern” rifles were offered for sale in the United States in 1986 and 1987.
		British Small Arms (BSA) Guns Ltd. ceased manufacture of the FAL years ago and the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock is now engaged in subcontracting the destruction and scrapping of British L1A1s which are no longer needed.
	www.entreprise.com /News/articles/BannedGun944.htm (1556 words)

	Royal Enfield :: Classic : Gourt
		Royal Enfield Books and Information - REB – fuelling your passion for Royal Enfield Royal Enfield Books provides you with only the very best Royal Enfield reads and collectables.
		Royal Enfield Enthusiast Site - A US based enthusiast site with over 400 photographs, lots of weblinks, a message forum,technical articles and other information of both British and Indian made motorcycles.
		Royal Enfield Motorcycles Photographs - Lots of photographs of (mostly) Royal Enfield Motorcycles taken at various events in the Netherlands, Scotland, England and Germany.
	recreation.gourt.com /Motorcycles/Classic/Royal-Enfield.html (937 words)

	Sovereign’s Cypher
		Another marking of note on the Sovereign's Cypher side of the action body is the "Class of Arm" marking.
		Second Class Arms were those of obsolete patterns, examples with more wear, or weapons thought to be generally less "frontline ready".
		Note the small cocking indicator, characteristic of this pattern Martini.
	www.martinihenry.com /sovcyph.htm (646 words)

	Collecting and Shooting the Military Surplus Rifle (2005) - Surplusrifle.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although the Pattern 14 is not truly a Lee Enfield rifle, it is referred to as an Enfield since it was designed at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield.
		Remington Arms Co. of Delaware purchased a half-finished locomotive factory in Eddystone, Pennsylvania.
		This factory became known as the Eddystone Arsenal, producing Pattern 14 rifles for the British war effort and later the U.S. Model 1917 rifle.
	www.surplusrifle.com /shooting/pattern14/index.asp (1675 words)

	Farewell To Arms Exhibition
		Visitors are encouraged to learn how to load, cock, aim and fire a variety of machine guns and rifles - this "hands on" experience proves to be not only interesting and informative but also good fun and we award certificates to those who qualify.
		The weapons come from all over the world and represent the small arms used by all the major combatants in the English Civil War, Napoleonic, Crimean, American Civil, Zulu and Boer, First World, Spanish Civil, Second World, Korean, Vietnam, Arab-Israeli, Falklands, Gulf and Afghanistan wars and conflicts.
		The exhibition includes most of the weapons produced by the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, Bren guns including a rare 1938 dated MK1,.455 and.38 revolvers, Sten guns and rifles.
	www.royalgunpowdermills.com /smallarms.htm (256 words)

	North Cape Online Magazine
		Beneath the crown, the first line is the initials of the reigning monarch, the second line is the name of the factory, the third line is the year of manufacture, the fourth line is the rifle model, and the bottom line is the mark designation.
		On Indian-manufactured rifles produced prior to circa 1952, the cypher is similar to the British Royal Cypher, consisting of a crown and the initials of the reigning monarch.
		Instead, the factory initials are stamped on the rear of the action body to the left of the bolt track.
	www.northcapepubs.com /ncnews.htm (11865 words)

	THE WAY IT WAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When one thinks of the efforts made in arming the Confederate forces during the Civil War, one's attention is drawn to Richmond, Virginia, the Tredegar Iron Works, and General Josiah Gorgas.
		However, there was one man whose influence and energy in the Held of small arms seemed to be everywhere within the borders of the Confederacy.
		Colonel Burton's influence thus shaped much of the South's ability to procure and manufacture the necessary small arms needed to prosecute the wan His vigorous efforts led to a considerable quantity of arms being produced, a most remarkable feat for such a young man at the time.
	www.n-ssa.org /SKIRMISHLINE/1998/jan98-4.htm (611 words)

	Channel 4 - Classic Weapons of World War II - Small arms
		In 1895 the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock started production of what was to become one of history’s most successful service rifles.
		American James Lee had designed an efficient bolt action and this was combined with Enfield’s quality engineered barrels to produce a highly accurate rifle, which has seen service all over the world.
		The rifle continued in use by the UK until well after the war, when it was replaced by the FN self-loading rifle in the 1950s.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/W/ww2weapons/arms/rifle1.html (154 words)

	THE
		In the late 1960s, the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield began a detailed theoretical analysis of the striking energy needed to disable soldiers with various levels of protection, and the ballistics required to deliver that energy at battle ranges for a number of different calibres.
		The conclusion was that the optimum calibre would lie between 6mm and 6.5mm, and an experimental 6.25mm cartridge (based on the abortive 7mm round) was developed which was claimed to have significant advantages over both the 5.56mm and 7.62mm calibres.
		However, the RSAF Enfield experiments suggested a lighter bullet at a higher velocity as the optimum loading for the 6.5mm calibre, a specification well within the capacity of the Arisaka cartridge.
	www.quarry.nildram.co.uk /256brit.htm (1775 words)

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