Webley Air Pistol Batch Numbers

[Snodgrass]

Hi John,just remembered my first Webley Senior was given to me in the early sixties so would have been B'ham 4 and was No.504,now probably history as after many years of service we used to fill the cylinder with Swan Vesta match heads which produced fairly spectacular results including shearing all the barrel linkage pins when the piston blew back!!
Happy youthful days which is now why minty boxed examples are worth so much.
Still sold ir for a fiver though in 1965.
Also had 227 B'ham 4 which was given to my son some some years ago.
I will also look at the numbers on the cutaway model I showed a while ago.
Kind regards,
Chris.

[Josie & John]

Hi John,just remembered my first Webley Senior was given to me in the early sixties so would have been B'ham 4 and was No.504,now probably history as after many years of service we used to fill the cylinder with Swan Vesta match heads which produced fairly spectacular results including shearing all the barrel linkage pins when the piston blew back!!
Happy youthful days which is now why minty boxed examples are worth so much.
Still sold ir for a fiver though in 1965.
Also had 227 B'ham 4 which was given to my son some some years ago.
I will also look at the numbers on the cutaway model I showed a while ago.
Kind regards,
Chris.

Thanks Chris,
I used to shoot those plastic caps that were intended for key ring pistols in a smoothbore Junior. Very spectacular in the dark but not to be recommended as it probably corroded the barrel!

Kind regards,

John

[dogsbody]

A couple more for you

Junior 132
Junior 1507 with an A behind the trigger

Premier 837 E series 7/74

Got a Mk1 somewhere too, I'll post when I find it.

atb

dogsbody

[Josie & John]

A couple more for you

Junior 132
Junior 1507 with an A behind the trigger

Premier 837 E series 7/74

Got a Mk1 somewhere too, I'll post when I find it.

atb

dogsbody

Thank you dogsbody. Is the Junior coated?

Kind regards,

John

[ali d]

Junior Batch no 1
This is the one troubledshooter mentioned in an earlier post

[Josie & John]

Junior Batch no 1
This is the one troubledshooter mentioned in an earlier post

Thank you Ali D,

Troubledshooter provided me with details of your pistol - I hadn't made reference to you in order to preserve confidentiality.

Were the grips of the coarser extended type or standard Junior versions?

Kind regards,

John

[Ronno6]

Webley Junior 659

[webley ken]

Hi, My Junior batch numbers are as follows


107 Mk2
164
423 extended courser type grips
593 extended courser type grips
780

Its interesting to note that the higher numbers (apart from one) are the earliest guns.

Regards,
Ken

[Geezer]

Resurrecting this.

Just acquired post-war Mark I. Batch 126 on front and under grip. "Birmingham 4" address (pre-58), and blued trigger, which the Bruce book suggests means it is early post-WW2, I think.

[Gerard]

Another couple of Webley pistols have joined my family. Bought a slightly beaten up Senior, 1950's vintage with a missing rear sight and smashed breech seal, very weak spring. In .22" with nice clean rifling. Batch 927. I'll be restoring it soon and making a new rear sight.

And my little brother wandered into an antiques shop on his lunch break last month one sunny Friday and first thing jumping to his eye was a nearly pristine Mark 1 from a bit earlier, probably late 1940's. Asking price was just $99 Canadian... but he offered $85 and the nice lady sold it for that. Heck of a bargain. The trigger is so nicely adjusted. Batch 294. In .177" with clean rifling and a tolerable crown. Weak, so I put a new flat wire mainspring in it and reversed the original leather breech seal, oiled that well, tested it at about 450fps with 7gr wadcutters.