Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver

[ISCS Yoda]

I paid a visit to an LGS this afternoon, a small but busy store packed from stem to stern with guns of all kinds, modern, vintage, antique, used, new, etc. One thing for sure, they don't put them away at night, so the whole place must somehow be locked down tight.

Anyway, this Webley-Fosbery caught my eye and they let me take a picture of it. I mostly wanted the photo for this Forum; I figured folks would like it.

We got into a discussion about it and the fact that it is in the old Humphrey Bogart movie "The Maltese Falcon". The IMFDB indicates that a Webley-Fosbury is in the movie:

Maltese Falcon, The (1941 - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games)

(c) IMFDB

Actually, there seems to be an error. Late in the movie a real Webley-Fosbery appears but we ran the murder scene in the beginning of the movie slow motion and stills on a computer and that Webley doesn't recoil automatically. If you're into that sort of thing you can run it yourself.

I saw lots of interesting guns which I will discuss in the hand ejector Forum.

Cross reference:

http://smith-wessonforum.com/s-w-ha...esting-guns-seen-today-lgs.html#post141222269

 

[jag312]

I bought this t-shirt from Sonny Barger. Notice the revolvers?

 

[Ruger 13]

My dad bought a few of them back in the 60's that were advertised in gun magazines for $69.99!

 

[DWalt]

The W-F wasn't the only "Automatic Revolver." The Union Firearms Company of Toledo, Ohio made a small number of a similar revolver design (in .32 caliber) called the "Union" in the 1909-12 period. I have only ever seen one of them, at an OGCA show in the early 1970s.

 

[iouri]

video link leads to some 10 min holster ad for me.

 

[Tom K]

The W-F wasn't the only "Automatic Revolver." The Union Firearms Company of Toledo, Ohio made a small number of a similar revolver design (in .32 caliber) called the "Union" in the 1909-12 period. I have only ever seen one of them, at an OGCA show in the early 1970s.

Then there is the modern Mateba series of firearms. MATEBA FIREARMS – FUTURE IS NOW I have a .357 that I bought in 2002 from CDNN. Probably should have bought a .44 Magnum as well, but didn't.

Like the Webley-Fosbery, the upper barrel and cylinder assembly reciprocates on top of the grip frame, cocking the hammer and indexing the cylinder. Unlike the W-F, it fires from the bottom chamber of the cylinder, like the superficially similar Chiappa Rhino.