Though now it is only one of many world renowned English companies that include Rolls Royce and Bentley cars, Marconi, GEC, and Wilkinson Sword being only a few names that over the last four decades have unfortunately been broken up this way. Webley & Scott was one of the most prolific gunmakers Britain has ever seen being the only maker in reality to warrant the use of six figure gun serial numbers, after all it had been in business since William Davis founded his business at the Weaman Street Birmingham in 1790. Is it me? Or do we British seem to be extremely complacent when one of our long established manufactures ceases to trade and parts of the company are sold off to the highest bidder. All I can say to that is “you don’t shoot the engraving or it’s Wood” though you shoot the gun and as a whole it does that extremely reliably time after time. I will agree with any person that says the 700 is not eye catching when it comes to engraving or the wood.
Yes we do still make high end shotguns in England but they are only for the wealthy and well beyond the purchase capabilities of the average working family man. And more importantly it was in its day the only British shotgun manufacturer that the average shooting man could afford to purchase a new gun from that was truly built here in England.
I decided to write this article on Webley & Scott 700 because over the years the companies efforts have some how been overlooked in one way or another.
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