BRITISH AMMUNITION EXHIBIT

BRITISH CARTRIDGES WITH NEITHER "ELEY" NOR "KYNOCH" HEAD STAMP

Britain's major ammunition manufacturers are Eley, founded in 1828, and Kynoch, founded in 1862. Other ammunition makers were prevalent until 1920 when government intervention put all British cartridge production under control of the Explosives Trades Industry (E.T.I.), which in turn became Imperial Chemicals Industries (I.C.I.) of today. Around 1920 most gunmakers had stopped making ammunition, but many had cartridges made with their name on the head stamps. Therefore, some rounds here may have been made by Eley or Kynoch, but without obvious identification as such. They are called proprietary rounds. Many of the rounds here pre-date the 1920 edict that put cartridge manufacturing under the I.C.I., and they were in fact made by the gunmaker, or by some smaller ammunition manufacturers. Some examples include Westley Richards and P. Webley