Remington Arms and Ammunition Company вЂ“ Ilion, New York вЂ“ Three contracts for 1,000,000 rifles at $30.00 each.Remington Arms Company of Delaware вЂ“ Eddystone, Delaware вЂ“ A contract for 2,000,000 rifles at $30.00 each.Eventually, these contracts were awarded to three companies: Morgan as their commercial agent in America to negotiate contracts for military rifles and bayonets. 303 inch, Pattern of 1914 from various arms makers. Great Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th, much in need of infantry weapons, and the British went to America to order 3,400,000 Magazine Rifles. The Great War began in the summer of 1914, and soon engulfed nearly every European country, all of which were ill- prepared and ill-equipped to fight on this grand scale. I wonder if digging into the Baldwin Locomotive archives would yield any Thompson related discoveries? There are still (I think) some of the buildings left just south of Philadelphia International Airport. This may seem trivial but around here most people know nothing about Eddystone Arsenal, yet many people know about Baldwin Locomotive Works. In all of my years of being a well read gun-fanatic this is the first IвЂ™ve read that Eddystone was Baldwin Locomotive. Apparently there was no Eddystone Arsenal, per se. During WWI Remington contracted with Baldwin Locomotive Works to manufacture almost 2 million Pattern 14 and M1917 rifles, and, of course, this operation became what we all know of as the so-called Eddystone Arsenal.

Baldwin had a factory in Philadelphia in the mid-1800s (almost 200 acres a few blocks north of what is now Philadelphia City Hall) and established a 600 acre factory in Eddystone. I was reading about the Baldwin Locomotive Works вЂ“ one of the largest manufac- turers of steam locomotives in the country. Well here is something newвЂ¦ at least to me. I have read this brief historical factoid in numerous books and magazine over the years. M1917 Rifles made at this arsenal are, as we all know, marked Eddystone.

WWI had a production capacity of 1,000 Model 1917 rifles per day. I believe I am correct that General Thompson designed and/or supervised the factory at Eddystone, Pennsylvania that during This prompted a long-overdue research investigation that resulted in thisвЂ¦ believed to be the first historical investigation into вЂњEddystone.вЂќ This worthwhile project was prompted by the following letter to Remshots: A search through dozens of books dealing with this important WWI rifleДisclosed that none had any definitive information about the factory or in RemingtonвЂ™s actual involvement. However, few (if any) know the true story of the Eddystone Rifle Works or its actual relationship to Remington. The Eddystone Rifle Works вЂ“ Eddystone, Pennsylvania Most martial firearms collectors will tell you that Remington Arms Company made Model 1917 Enfield Rifles at Eddystone during World War I.

Pattern 14 enfield barrel