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Winchester-Western Winchester-Western Ball Powder Loading Data for Shot Shells, Center Fire Rifle and Pistol Cartridges
New Haven Winchester-Western 1976 Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket
72 pages, illustrations, tables, pictorial wrappers, very good. From the Wikipedia article on The Winchester Repeating Arms Company: "During the War Winchester had borrowed heavily to finance its massive expansion. With the return of peace the company attempted to use its surplus production capacity, and pay down its debt, by trying to become a general manufacturer of consumer goods: everything from kitchen knives to roller skates to refrigerators, all to be marketed through "Winchester Stores." The strategy was a failure, and the Great Depression put the final nail in the company's coffin. Winchester Repeating Arms Company went into receivership in 1931, and was bought at bankruptcy auction by the Olin family's Western Cartridge Company on December 22 of that year. Oliver Winchester's firm would maintain a nominal existence until 1935, when Western Cartridge merged with its subsidiary to form Winchester-Western Company; in 1944 the firearms and ammunition operations would be reorganized as the Winchester-Western Division of Olin Industries. Fortunately for Winchester, president John M. Olin was a sportsman and gun enthusiast, and he started at once to restore the brand to its former lustre by concentrating on its classic models and updated versions thereof, with particular attention to quality and prestige. Olin personally pushed the deluxe Model 52 Sporter and the semi-custom Model 21 double-barreled shotgun. Winchester flourished, even during the later Depression; and if the Browning 1880's and 90's had been Winchester's Golden Age, the John Olin era of the 30's and 40's was the Silver." CHS24; 72 pages
Price:
20.00 USD
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