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It is of course not the improved one from Harald Wolf... "1927. The year 1928 already saw the Schüler Company in busines with its model "Jumbo”. Amongst the international importers were companies like Charles Heyer & Co., the leading gunshop of Nairobi / Kenya, Groenefeld & Hicks of Pretoria / South Africa, Etablissement Janssen, the sporting arms supplier of the Action details ofone of my .500 Jeffery rifles. Engravings by Monika Wolf. Belgian King in Brussels, a company named Hollander in New York and Maison Didier of Saigon, in the then French Indochina (Vietnam). At the same time the world-renowned British firm of W. J. Jeffery introduced an absolutely identical cartridge, called the .500 Jeffery rimless. Who came first, Jeffery or Schüler, is difficult if not impossible to say. Personally I tend to believe that the .500 rimless is a brainchild of Richard Schüler. Most of the Jeffery guns and rifles were actually not made by Jeffery himself, but ordered at other companies. So maybe there was a cooperation between Schüler and Jeffery planed at an early stage. However, the .500 Jeffery rifles were definitely not supplied by Schüler." Text from Harald Wolf: http://www.hataritimes.com/d/waffen/e_jeffery.html |