"The A.H. Fox Double Shotgun"
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 8:20 pm
This morning, my friend Gary, one of the "Sunday morning joy boys" I drink coffee with, tell lies with and sometimes even shoot some skeet with, at the Spokane Gun Club brought me his December 2018 issue of Gun Digest with the article "The A.H. Fox Double Shotgun" beginning on page 32. While the general gist of the article is fine, virtually every fact stated is wrong.
Ansley's age when he got his first Patent, 19 not the 24 stated.
The Fox Gun Co. was not sold to Baltimore Gun Co. Four of the five directors of the Fox Gun Co. a Maryland Corporation, formed a new corporation, the Baltimore Arms Co., under the laws of West Virginia, and transferred the assets of the Fox Gun Co. to Baltimore Arms Co.
Ansley didn't form the Philadelphia Arms Co. in 1905. PAC was incorporated November 5, 1902. Ground was broken for the factory in August 1903 and they were producing guns by late 1904. Ansley resigned from PAC in December 1904.
Ansley incorporated the A.H. Fox Gun Co. on April 6, 1905. The author states ejectors were added in 1907. While their first catalog doesn't mention ejectors, the second issued before they moved from Wayne & Bristol Streets to the old PAC factory in late 1906 does offer ejectors.
The gun pictured as Theodore Roosevelt's FE-Grade is actually a CSMC Exhibition Grade.
On and on. Arrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggg!!
Ansley's age when he got his first Patent, 19 not the 24 stated.
The Fox Gun Co. was not sold to Baltimore Gun Co. Four of the five directors of the Fox Gun Co. a Maryland Corporation, formed a new corporation, the Baltimore Arms Co., under the laws of West Virginia, and transferred the assets of the Fox Gun Co. to Baltimore Arms Co.
Ansley didn't form the Philadelphia Arms Co. in 1905. PAC was incorporated November 5, 1902. Ground was broken for the factory in August 1903 and they were producing guns by late 1904. Ansley resigned from PAC in December 1904.
Ansley incorporated the A.H. Fox Gun Co. on April 6, 1905. The author states ejectors were added in 1907. While their first catalog doesn't mention ejectors, the second issued before they moved from Wayne & Bristol Streets to the old PAC factory in late 1906 does offer ejectors.
The gun pictured as Theodore Roosevelt's FE-Grade is actually a CSMC Exhibition Grade.
On and on. Arrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggg!!
Sounds like he could have done a lot better research just reading our forums.