Eli Whitney Jr., the Whitneyville Armory and the Colts They Produced

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Posted August 28, 2019 6:01 am by Comments

By Dennis Adler

.44-caliber Remington-Beals Army looked like a Whitney model.


Both Union and Confederate soldiers used Whitney revolvers.
Whitney Second Model Navy with original military flap holster.
Variations of Whitney Pocket Model revolvers in .31 caliber.
1862 Spiller & Burr was a hybrid of Whitney frame and Colt mechanism.

In 1847, Samuel Colt had a U.S. government order in his hand for 1,000 new .44-caliber revolvers, which would restore life to his career as an arms-maker. But he no longer had a factory or the tooling to build the firearms. His design for the massive, six-shot holster pistol—later christened the Walker Colt in honor of the revolver’s co-designer, Texas Ranger Captain Samuel Walker—required an experienced arms manufacturer to tool up and build. And it had to be done quickly to fulfill the terms of Colt’s contract.

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