• The Birmingham Proof House was established by Act of Parliament in 1813 to ensure small arm user safety, as far as it is practicable, by the compulsory and...
  • The corporation was renamed to "The Guardians of the Birmingham Proof House" by the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. cxlviii).
  • Birmingham Proof House 26 of 37. Mr Morgan with his 38 Smith and Wesson revolver and his wife with her 22 Walther automatic, in 1966.
  • The Birmingham Proof House was established in 1813 to test firearms and ammunition to ensure user safety. Over 200 years later the proof house is still at the...
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  • Established in the year 1813, the Birmingham Proof House has been dealing with arms only by the act of Parliment.
  • The UK has two proof house: The London Proof House, founded in 1637, and the Birmingham Proof House, founded in 1813.
  • This series of pictures shows the new ABAS Series 8 Over and Under pair going through Proof at the Birmingham Proof House.
  • Post 1857 plan of Ordnance premises in Harding C W, A Bi-Centenary History of the Birmingham Proof House 1813-2013, 2015.
  • birmingham proof house machine Roger has overseen a considerable programme of restoration and refurbishment in the last half dozen years.
  • SOURCES Andy Foster, Pevsner Architectural Guide, Birmingham (2005), 187-9; The Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House, Services and Facilities.
  • I have been lucky enough to be granted permission to follow a pair of guns around The Birmingham Proof House as they go through their process.
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