In 1856 Beals designed a new pocket pistol in. Whitney then decided to sit it out and wait for Colt’s patent to expire. But the design was complicated and not commercially viable, and ended after about 3,200 were made. Beals secured a patent in 1854 for a rocking arm or ‘walking beam” revolver which Whitney manufactured. in developing a revolver line for the Whitneyville Armory. While working on the Jenks carbine for Remington, he also interested Eli Whitney, Jr. And, along with Jenks came a mechanic, armorer, and inventor named Fordyce Beals in 1846.īeals was, enterprising. But perhaps more oddly the deal included William Jenks himself. Previously, back in September 1845, Remington received a contract for the Navy side-lined from the troubled Ames Manufacturing Company to produce 1,000 of an “odd” variation of William Jenks’ breechloading carbine with a Maynard tape primer and a side “swinging” or slapper hammer. In 1856, Eliphalet’s sons, Philo, Samuel, and Eliphalet Jr. The venture went well, and pleased with the work the Ordnance Department granted them two more contracts for 7,500 M1841 Rifles each. In 1845, Remington expanded their business being able to secure a failed contract given to John Griffiths of Cincinnati, Ohio for 5,000 Model 1841 Rifles.
It is a nearly universal reenactorism and commercialism that Model 1863 New Model Army's and Navy's are referred to and sold as the “Remington Model 1858.”Įliphalet Remington had been in the gun making business since 1816 and over the next thirty-some years had built a good business in gun parts, locks, barrels, and custom-built hunting rifles.
No, it is not a Model 1858 Remington Army or Navy revolver… Meaning, not using a type before it had come out, and carrying a late 1863-1865 era revolver in 1861 for example. Here is another Q & D type aid in making reproduction revolver choices for a more finely tuned impression.
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