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The next model to be produced in Europe was certainly the oddest of Bull Dog designs, featuring a frame that hinged upward in front of trigger guard to eject and reload. It is reputed to have been based upon a design patented by the Birmingham gun maker, William James Hill (1860-1897), although no patent has been located under that name.

A slight mystery also surrounds the use of the name Stanley. In fact, the Stanley Arms Company was a trade name used by Dumoulin Freres, Liege (1877 - 1894), where manufacture of this particular model may have taken place. The same hinged frame design also appears on other continental revolvers.

Earliest examples were marked Hill’s Patent Self extracting “BULL DOG” on one side of the barrel, while later models displayed just “THE STANLEY” BULL DOG at the same location. These versions all bear the trade mark of William J. Hill, depicting a winged hourglass beneath the entwined initials WJH, applied at the left-hand side of the frame behind the cylinder. This mark had been officially registered by Hill in 1880. Weapons of this type were available in calibres ranging from .320, .380, .442 to .450, although not all were necessarily identified as Bull Dogs.