In praise of Webley air pistols

[ggggr]

I was thinking Why are Juniors made the way they are (Tube brazed? into a frame ) and the Mk1,Senior and Premier made the way they are? I think a bigger pistol built like the junior would look pretty good and vice versa.

[ashf9999]

Why not? I guess as the Junior pistols were intended to be cheaper and within reach of saved pocket money, using a separate tube threaded into a machined body casting was an easier (and so cheaper) method of manufacture. If they machined a Junior in the same fashion as a Senior their costs would have been too similar and there wouldn't have been the required product differentiation...But that's a guess...