Yes I can remeber, a few years latter reading the very first review done by Geoeff Boxhall who did the gun tests in AGW, it was the Hawk and he didnt hold back, he said it was low powered and not that well made compared to older Webley products, cant have done the sales much good I think. A product of its time maybe
. I well remember my late Uncle buying a new car in the hot summer of 1976, he retracted the windows , 3 stuck, 1 retracted, turnded on the electric fan to cool the car and it burst in to flames on the dealers forecourt
and this excellent product
a "quality"
product of BL, a Princess by Austin. He had his money back, bought a 2nd hand VW Bettle, run it for 15 years with no problems at all and after that bought a BMW 5 which he ran to his death again with no problems. Little wonder to me that we have very few British car or gun firms these days if that was the prevaling attitude then of "that will do, never mind it dosent work properly !.