Читать книгу Gun Digest 2011 онлайн

47 страница из 495

So, in France, a Military Commission was placed in charge of selecting a new service model for general distribution, which was required to feature a solid frame. Among the miscellaneous guns tested were the new central fire Lefaucheux adopted by the Navy in 1870, together with special Galand and Chamelot-Delvigne prototypes. (See L’aristocratie du pistolet by Raymond Caranta and Pierre Cantegrit. Crépin-Leblond, Paris. 1997.) In the end, it was the Chamelot-Delvigne product that was selected.

Belgian J. Chamelot was a gunsmith residing in Liège and Henri Gustave Delvigne, a French Captain residing in Paris, was well known for his activity in the field of ballistics. The two united their efforts in 1862 and designed several revolvers covered by twelve patents by June of 1873. Most of these were pinfire guns, the double action Model 9 of 1864 having already being tested by the military in 1867.

THE CHAMELOT-DELVIGNE FOREIGN SERVICE REVOLVERS

The first successful revolver of the new solid-frame Chamelot-Delvigne line was the 10.4mm rimfire model, adopted by Switzerland on April 24, 1872. These guns were first made in Belgium for the Swiss Army by Pirlot Frères in Liège, in 1873. Later, they were converted into centerfire in 1878, at the Bern Waffenfabrik facilities in Switzerland.