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Articles by Tom Pudding

19th Century

Bullet Points

27th January 2025 Tom Pudding 0

Every once in a while I get involved with some project or other relating to my hobby of collecting and shooting antique firearms and while individually these may not justify a separate GP article, I [more…]

19th Century

Ancient and Modern (or a Tale of Two Cartridges: 2)

9th August 2023 Tom Pudding 0

In Part One I described the processes involved in reloading the (to me at any rate) ‘modern’ .303 British cartridge, all stages of which can easily be automated. Now let’s look at what is involved [more…]

19th Century

Ancient and Modern (or a Tale of Two Cartridges: 1)

2nd August 2023 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction Two questions that I am regularly asked when shooting my long-obsolete 19th century rifles at our local club range are i) how much does it cost to make one cartridge? and ii) how long [more…]

19th Century

The Rise and Fall of the Needle Gun 1841-1874

12th September 2022 Tom Pudding 1

The Needle Gun Every once in a while in all fields of engineering there comes along an innovation that so revolutionises the existing technology that it makes long accepted ways of doing things obsolete and [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (iii)

16th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-July 2010. I was sitting outside our tent on the Municipal Campsite at Bléré, in the Indre et Loire département of central France doing a crossword and [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (ii)

9th May 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction From January 1943, with the commencement of American daylight bombing of German targets complementing the existing night time raids by the British Air Force, Luftwaffe superiority in the skies over Germany and its occupied [more…]

20th Century

Erich Bachem – an engineer years ahead of his time (i)

25th April 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In common with many boys who like me were fortunate enough to grow up in the 1950s and 1960s, I spent much of my spare time building and flying Keil Kraft balsawood & tissue [more…]

19th Century

A Court for King Cholera

10th February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction In 1967, as part of my Public Health Inspectors’ Education Board course, I remember attending a lecture given by Dr Moore, the then Medical Officer of Health for the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, [more…]

19th Century

1850s British and American Rifle-Musket Cartridges Compared

2nd February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction My main interest in firearms has always been their technology and development, particularly during the 19th century which saw an incredible advance from flintlock, smoothbore muskets to semi and even fully automatic weapons. This [more…]

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