Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.?The Early Years
2.?A Period of Transition
3.?The Triumph of the Birmingham -Gun Makers
4.?Two World Wars
5.?Postwar Decline
6.?The Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960
7.?Black Country Gun Workers
Appendix I: "Brown Bess" by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Appendix II: Birmingham Gun Firms at the Great Exhibition, 1851
Appendix III: Chronological Location of Manufacturers in the Gun Quarter, 1777-1957
Appendix IV: Displacement of Gun Making Firms and Subsidiaries, Owing to the Cutting of the Inner Ring Road
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
