G'day Ben,

I am afraid I am certainly not the one to answer your question, but I think it is very interesting working out who supplied what to whom. If two companies were both recorded as being suppliers to the trade then the waters definitely become a little muddied.

If I was suggesting anything it was the possibility that T & L supplied plain under levers to W & C Scott & Son Prior to the amalgamation in 1878. But it is equally possible that the reverse could have been the case.

Also in the quotation "their name and London only", do they mean W & C Scott or the name of the company to whom the gun has been supplied? If the latter is correct then my cape was probably built
by W & C Scott, as it is marked Tipping and Lawden London. T & L were a Birmingham company but had an office and retail outlet in London to which I thought they were referring.

All the best,

Ian.