Just passing on some info to my fellow collectors here really, as though some of you may find the following interesting. I had a most informative and detailed chat with a well known and respected Brum-based springer guru recently, and told him that as a life long lover of the Webley Omega, that I also now found myself championing the Brum-built Webley Longbow as a great British air rifle, too.
Not only did he agree with me wholeheartedly, but (and wait for it) he also told me, that during the development of the Longbow to replace the short lived, long stroked, Webley Tomahawk (a rifle best suited for FAC levels, which struggled, unfettled, below 12ft.lb), the R&D bods at Webley were going to call it the Omega MkII before the marketing men came up with the name Longbow. Fact or fiction? Knowing the source, I'd say fact. There, food for thought for my fellow anoraks to cogitate over
. Atb: G.