I am german( so much as possible) and think if you look at cartridges some of german developments like the 9,3x64 and the 10,75x68 are the best ever designed.
The british gunmakers build allways fine double rifles but the actions coming from the 19.century. There is nothing new under the sun and you cant invent the bicycle a second time but new ideas and new actions come fom Suhl in this time.
British gunmaker live from the work and the ideas of her fathers or build guns with mauser actions.
They never build a good repeating gun( enfield lovers please forgive me but nobody outside of the empire buy it) and they never build a real automatic gun.
British game guns are beatyful but this was the classic gun from the "golden age" and the brits becoming to rich and to full in the big empire.