Talk:.455 Webley

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[edit] S&W revolver?

Wasn't there a Smith & Wesson revolver also chambered for this cartridge?

There was, yes- Colt also made a .455 calibre pistol chambered in .455 Webley as well. The cartridge was sometimes sold commercially in the US as ".455 Eley" or ."455 Colt", FWIW. --Commander Zulu 14:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Revolver and automatic

The .455 Webley refers to two different cartridges. One is the .455 Webley Automatic (which currently is a redirect to this article. The other is the .455 Revolver MK I or .455 Colt which is what this article talks about. Shall we make a different page for the auto, and rename this one appropriately, or handle both on one page with judicious redirects to catch searchers? Arthurrh 23:23, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd put them both on the one page; .455 Webley Automatic is too uncommon to warrant a page of its own, IMHO. --Commander Zulu 23:55, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I concur. Should there also be "See Also" links to the other similar and contemporary cartridges? ---tom 11:00, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

At this point the article has no mention of the .455 Automatic at all. On a tangent, there's a shot of a Colt 1911 in .455 Webley here, and a .455 Mark 1 Automatic here. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:37, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mention of the Thompson-LaGarde Tests

"The .455 Webley cartridge was rated superior to the .45 Colt in stopping power in the famous Thompson-LaGarde Tests"

This line would seem to state that the .455 Webley is more powerful than the .45 Colt. Whether or not that's true, reading the article on the Thompson-LaGarde Tests reveals that the tests were highly unscientific and unreliable. Thus, pointing to those tests as proof of the .455's power seems dubious. I'm removing that line. --Schwern 06:40, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. If the tests rated the .455 Webley cartridge as superior etc, then the article should state that; this does not mean that the article endorses the result of those tests, it is just conveying information. I shall put it back, with a link to Thompson-LaGarde Tests (which starts off by noting that the tests were unscientific, although it is a very poor article). Rock over London, rock on Chicago. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:37, 29 November 2007 (UTC)