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    William Ellis Metford (4 October 1824 – 14 October 1899) was a British engineer best known for designing the Metford rifling used in the .303 calibre Lee–Metford...
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    magazine with an innovative seven-groove rifled barrel designed by William Ellis Metford. It replaced the Martini–Henry as the standard service rifle of...
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    were fitted with barrels using the radiused rifling designed by William Ellis Metford. while later models used the same square "Enfield" rifling as contemporary...
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    accommodated by Mannlicher box magazine designs. The "Metford" comes from William Ellis Metford (1824–1899), an English engineer who was instrumental...
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    rear-locking bolt system that had a barrel featuring rifling designed by William Ellis Metford. The bolt has a relatively short bolt throw and features rear-mounted...
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    series Dragons Den William Ellis Metford (1824–1899), Taunton-born engineer known for the Metford rifling in the .303 Lee-Metford service rifle of the...
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  • Priday, Metford and Company Limited was a family-run company that produced flour at the City Flour Mills, Gloucester, England for over a century. They...
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    created a baronet 1874. William Ellis Metford, (1824-1899), son of Dr William Metford of Flook House, Taunton, designed the Metford rifling used in the ...
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    he knew the rifle designer William Ellis Metford; the "Pritchett bullet", with a hollow, unplugged base, which he and Metford invented in 1853, brought...
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  • the adoption in the Army of the Lee-Metford rifle. Sir Henry had worked closely with engineer William Ellis Metford, inventor of the rifle, establishing...
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    had a shooting range installed at the park, where working with William Ellis Metford he made some significant developments in rifling and bullet design...
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  • Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-7076-2. (See chapter 3: "Hiram Maxim Changes War") Ellis, John (1976). The Social History of the Machine Gun. London: Pimlico. Ferguson...
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  • Chase Meredith, Shropshire Yeomanry Lt.-Col. Francis Killigrew Seymour Metford VD labour Corps Temp Capt. Harry Vincent Mercer Metivier, Royal Army Veterinary...
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    Stacey, pp. 186–95. Ellis, Normandy, p. 452. Ellis, Germany, pp. 4, 29, 72, 79–80, 99, 159–61. Martin, pp. 185–95, 214–20. Ellis, Germany, p. 285. Martin...
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    Other railway stations in Maitland include: East Maitland High Street Metford Mindaribba Telarah Victoria Street Thornton Lochinvar A passenger tram...
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  • 1879 in Shanghai to a Scottish missionaries First Flying Scot website William Hugh Ewen Pioneer Scots Aviator Certificate No 63 First Flying Scot website...
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    Google Books.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Ellis (F.L.S.), Robert (April 10, 1851). "Index and introductory. Raw materials...
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  • Bde, Chapter 3. Ellis, Normandy, Appendix UV. Joslen, pp. 148, 178. Doherty, pp. 51–7. Joslen, p. 585. Kilvert-Jones, pp. 79–80. Ellis, Normandy, pp. 173...
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  • Woodhouse Smith, CBE, DSc, lately President of the Institute of Fuel. Metford Watkins, Chairman, General Purposes Committee of the Retail Distributors'...
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    November. Initial weapons training was carried out with small numbers of Lee-Metford rifles and French 90mm guns. The division was concentrated at Aldershot...
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  • Maheswary Velautham, Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot. Roger Harold Metford Warner, 95, British antiques dealer. Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director...
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  • Honorary Secretary of the Public Service Band, State of Victoria. Alfred Metford, Commissioner of Pensions and Maternity Allowances, Commonwealth of Australia...
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    Halstock Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent Tony Metford unopposed N/A N/A Registered electors 1,534 Independent gain from Independent...
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  • Associates. Elly Whitehouse-Jansen, Director, the Richmond Fellowship. Metford Arthur Jeanes, Chairman, Somerset College of Agriculture and Horticulture...
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