Notes: This is sort of a generic class of personal defense revolver originated by Webley in the early part of the century; the Bulldog was one of those, though they went by many names. The Bulldog is practically a derringer in proportions, being a very small weapon with almost no barrel and very small butt. The chamber, however, is full-sized for a revolver. Most of these weapons were chambered for .44 or .45 Webley, though .380 Revolver or 10.6mm German Ordnance chamberings were not unknown.

Notes: This revolver looks very much a Smith & Wesson Model 10 – with good reason, since it is based on an S&W 10 frame. It is a competition revolver, with a heavy Douglas barrel, with square-notch rear sights and a ramp front sight, milled into the barrel with protective ribs. The grips are Hogue rubber grips. This revolver was introduced in 1961.

Notes: This weapon was designed in the wake of World War 1, where the British found that their standard sidearms, the Webley-Fosbery revolver, had such a large amount of recoil and muzzle blast and poor accuracy that considerable skill was required on the part of the user, which required much more training than the British had time to give the typical sidearm user. They decided to adopt the Webley and Scott Mark III, which used a smaller cartridge. The government bought the design and gave it to Enfield for improvement.

The resulting weapon, the No 2 Pistol Revolver, was an improvement of sorts; however, its trigger pull was so long and creepy (even with several improvements to the trigger mechanism) that the desired increase in accuracy among amateurs was never really achieved; and, though four different rounds were tried in the weapon, none of them ever really satisfied British troops. In addition, the No. 2 went through several different versions (Marks), as additional deficiencies cropped up. One of these was the large hammer spur, designed to allow single-action or double-action shooting, which had a great tendency to get caught on anything from pieces of the soldiers gear to protrusions inside vehicles – and that often caused the hammer to snap forward again, resulting in accidental firing. This problem was fixed temporarily in 1931, but the hammer stop that fixed the problem was again omitted after 1942 to simply wartime production. Therefore, the accidental firing problem started all over again. Eventually, this problem became so severe that Webley began to produce its own improved revolver, the Mark 4 (see below).

Though the No 2 Pistol Revolver was produced in large quantities, most of them ended up in Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations; in British service, they typically were in police service only. By 2000, a surprising number of them remain in service, despite their shortcomings.

Notes: This weapon is in a class of its own – a semiautomatic revolver. The force of recoil actually drives the barrel back over the frame, which cocks the weapon and rotates the cylinder. It was, unfortunately, a very complicated mechanism that was prone to jamming from dirt or simple lack of care. It was a novelty weapon that was adopted by many British officers, who found them jamming at the wrong moment during the first year of World War 1, and was quickly discarded.

Notes: Though the official chambering for this revolver was .320 Revolver, is could just as easily fire .32 Long Colt, .32 Short Colt, or .32 Smith & Wesson Long without any changes. It is a nickel-plated inexpensive weapon designed to be slipped into a pocket for personal defense or concealment. Though it was built at a slow rate for more than 10 years, it is probable that less than 10,000 were made. They still show up regularly to this day, however.

Notes: This was a far more popular weapon than the Pocket Hammerless; over 55,000 were built, and when introduced, cost British citizens a mere 3 Pounds to buy. Government and police sales were also made. Some had adjustable sights, shrouded hammers, and no trigger guards with folding triggers. Small numbers of the Pocket Pistol were also chambered for .320 Revolver cartridges; these can be identified by the cylinder, which is smaller in the front than in the back.

Notes: The RIC is a heavy-frame, short-barreled revolver designed for official use, able to be used as much as a club as a revolver. It was designed for the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), hence the name. As such, it was used for many decades, as well as being sold commercially and to several other British and colonial police forces, and by German and Belgian police early in the 20^th century.

Notes: Wilkinson Sword, the British company that had long been a supplier to the British government of swords, daggers, and knives, decided the time had changed around the end of the 19^th century and that they needed a firearm to sell to bolster flagging sales of their blades. They therefore asked Webley to help them built a high-quality revolver for sale to British officers and the officers of other European countries. The British officer of the time was allowed to use any sort of sidearm he wished, as long as it fired .455 Webley ammunition. They designed a revolver with stainless steel plating and the highest-possible grade of steel for the parts of the weapon. Some enterprising officers later rechambered their weapons to fire .450 revolver of .476 Enfield ammunition, but these conversions are relatively rare. Due to the high quality of manufacture, a Webley-Wilkinson encountered today can still be expected to function flawlessly.