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    The Western Cartridge Company was an American manufacturer of small arms and ammunition formerly based in East Alton, Illinois. Founded in 1898, it was...
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  • The firm went into receivership in 1931 and was bought by the Western Cartridge Company, a forerunner of the Olin Corporation. The Winchester brand name...
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  • shotgun shells and rimfire cartridges from 1895 until purchased by Western Cartridge Company in 1907. Austin Powder Company was founded in 1833 by brothers...
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  • The 6.8 Western is a centerfire rifle cartridge designed by Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Browning Arms Company. Introduced to the market in 2021...
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  • on a limited trial basis during the Vietnam war. Cartridges manufactured by Western Cartridge Company contained twenty flechettes 18.5 millimetres (0.73 in)...
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  • the New Haven Arms Company and changed its name to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. In 1931, the Western Cartridge Company (forerunner of the Olin...
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  • .256 Newton (category Newton rifle cartridges)
    centerfire cartridge based on the .30-06 Springfield military cartridge and developed in 1913 by Charles Newton in conjunction with the Western Cartridge Company...
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  • Vegas, United States Western Cartridge Company, a manufacturer of ammunition Western Publishing, a defunct publishing company Western Washington University...
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    .45 ACP (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    came in commercial 42-round yellow Winchester or 50-round white Western Cartridge Company cartons. U.S. military-issue ammunition came in 20-round cartons...
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    Company in 1911. Western Cartridge Company closed the Lowell plant in 1927 and moved its machinery to East Alton, Illinois. Western Cartridge would make the...
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    The Peters Cartridge Company was a company located along the Little Miami River in Kings Mills, Ohio, which specialized in gunpowder and ammunition production...
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    2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-09-11. Western Ammunition Handbook (3rd ed.). East Alton, Illinois: Western Cartridge Company. pp. 54–63. Kopsch, Paul. "Interview...
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    .38 Special (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    law-enforcement version of the cartridge, a new standard-velocity loading for the .38 Special was developed by Western Cartridge Company. This .38 Special variant...
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    A headstamp is the markings on the bottom of a cartridge case designed for a firearm. It usually tells who manufactured the case. If it is a civilian...
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    5.56×45mm NATO (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    intermediate cartridge family developed in the late 1970s in Belgium by FN Herstal. It consists of the SS109, L110, and SS111 cartridges. On 28 October...
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  • .30 Newton (category Magnum rifle cartridges)
    longer manufactured. Before World War II, loaded cartridges were once offered by Western Cartridge Company. Small runs of 30 Newton brass are occasionally...
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    Flechette (category Shotgun cartridges)
    a limited trial basis during the Vietnam War. Cartridges manufactured by the Western Cartridge Company contained 20 flechettes, each 18.5 mm (0.73 in)...
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  • Nosler produces six different rebated rim hunting cartridges. The first to be introduced was .26 Nosler, followed by .28 Nosler, .30 Nosler, .33 Nosler...
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    fragment removed from General Walker's house a fragment from a WCC (Western Cartridge Company) Mannlicher–Carcano bullet? Dr. GUINN. I would say that it is...
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    A cartridge, also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance...
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    .50 BMG (category Winchester Repeating Arms Company cartridges)
    designated as the 50 Browning by the C.I.P., is a .50 in (12.7 mm) caliber cartridge developed for the M2 Browning heavy machine gun in the late 1910s, entering...
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  • Alliance Western Cartridge Company West Monroe Partners Wicks Organ Company Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. Wolfram Research, Inc. Wrigley Company Wintrust...
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    Company, tires Esso, gasoline & oil Avco, aircraft parts International Harvester, trucks American Locomotive Company, tanks Western Cartridge Company...
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  • WCC (section Companies)
    Choppers, a company best known for selling chopper-style motorcycles West Coast Customs, a car remodeling company Western Cartridge Company, a manufacturer...
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    three companies to develop pilot plants. They were the Western Cartridge Company, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, and Tennessee Eastman Company, part...
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    cannon powder manufactured for World War I. Olsen was employed by Western Cartridge Company in 1929 and developed a process for manufacturing spherical smokeless...
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    book), who allegedly funneled $340,000 of German money to the Western Cartridge Company in 1915, to purchase ammunition. Sommerfeld had been Villa's representative...
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  • 5.45×39mm (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    The 5.45×39mm cartridge is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge. It was introduced into service in 1974 by the Soviet Union for use with the new...
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    Olin Corporation (category American companies established in 1892)
    with his two sons John and Spencer, merged these companies together to form the Western Cartridge Company in direct competition with Remington and Winchester...
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  • Winchester Model 21 (category Winchester Repeating Arms Company firearms)
    Fox; financial troubles plagued the gun's development until the Western Cartridge Company purchased Winchester Repeating Arms in 1931. The Model 21 has...
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