Enfield Manufacturing Article

[Michael Comer]

Here is an 1860 article about the manufacture of Enfield rifles:

http://britishmilitarylongarms.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/the-enfield-rifle.html

[James Brenner]

Re: Enfield Manufacturing Article

Great article. Thanks for posting.

For those who are interested in how military arms making and the Ordnance Department contributed to the development of interchangeable parts, precision gauging, and the evolution of machine tools, I recommend a visit to the American Precision Museum in Windsor, VT, located in the old Robbins and Lawrence factory - http://www.americanprecision.org/. A visit there followed by a trip to Springfield Armory in Springfield, MA, is extremely interesting and well worth the effort.

A couple of books that are pretty good on the subject are Merritt Roe Smith's, Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology, Felicia Dreyrup, Arms Making in the Connecticut Valley, and Carl Davis, Arming the Union.