Editing Webley Revolver (section)

==Other Webley revolvers==
Whilst the top-break, self-extracting revolvers used by the British and other Commonwealth militaries are the best-known examples of Webley revolvers, the company produced a number of other highly popular revolvers largely intended for the police and civilian markets.

===Webley RIC===
{{Main article|Webley RIC}}
[[File:George Armstrong Custer and wife Fort Lincoln Dakota Territory.jpg|thumb|left|Custer and his wife at [[Fort Abraham Lincoln]], [[Dakota Territory]], 1874. Reportedly at right in gunrack is a Webley Revolver used by Custer<ref>{{cite web|date=31 August 2015|first1=Garry|last1=James|url=https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/custers-last-gun-webley-ric-revolver/248900|title=Custer's Last Gun: Webley RIC Revolver|website=Guns & Ammo}}</ref>]]

[[File:Webley 1868 RIC.JPG|thumb|Webley Royal Irish Constabulary Revolver]]
The Webley RIC ([[Royal Irish Constabulary]]) model was Webley's first double-action revolver, and adopted by the RIC in 1868,<ref>{{harvnb|Maze|2002|p=30}}</ref> hence the name. It was a solid frame, gate-loaded revolver, chambered in .442 Webley. General [[George Armstrong Custer]] was known to have owned a pair, which he is believed to have used at the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]] in 1876.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Elman |title=Fired In Anger |publisher=Doubleday |date=1968 |oclc=436122 }}{{page needed|date=February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/burntumber60/MPdoerner.html |title=Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn |last=Doerner |first=John A |publisher=Martin Pate |access-date =2006-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030924041023/http://www.geocities.com/burntumber60/MPdoerner.html |archive-date=2003-09-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/CAGB%20Guns%20at%20the%20LBH.htm |title=Guns at the Little Bighorn |last=Gallear |first=Mark |access-date=2006-08-03 |year=2001 |publisher=Custer Association of Great Britain |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908225428/http://www.westernerspublications.ltd.uk/CAGB%20Guns%20at%20the%20LBH.htm |archive-date=2006-09-08 }}</ref>

A small number of early examples were produced in the huge .500 [[Tranter (revolver)|Tranter]] calibre, and later models were available chambered for the .450 Adams and other cartridges.  They were also widely copied in Belgium.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

===British Bull Dog===
{{Main article|British Bull Dog revolver}}
[[Image:GarfieldBD.jpg|thumb|right|Smithsonian file photograph of the British Bulldog revolver used by [[Charles Guiteau]] to assassinate President [[James Garfield]] in 1881]]
The British Bull Dog model was an enormously successful solid-frame design introduced by Webley in 1872. It featured a {{convert|2.5|in|mm|adj=on}} barrel and was chambered for five .44 Short Rimfire, .442 Webley, or .450 Adams cartridges. (Webley later added smaller scaled five chambered versions in .320 and .380 calibres, but did not mark them British Bull Dog.) A .44 calibre Belgian-made British Bulldog revolver was used to assassinate US President [[James Garfield]] on 2 July 1881 by [[Charles Guiteau]].

It was designed to be carried in a coat pocket or kept on a bedside table, and many have survived to the present day in good condition, having seen little actual use.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phelbs.com/HRFTX/tbbd.htm |access-date=2011-04-02 |last=Ficken |first=Homer R. |title=Webley's The British Bull Dog Revolver, Serial Numbering and Variations |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223210553/http://www.phelbs.com/HRFTX/tbbd.htm |archive-date=2012-02-23}}</ref> Numerous copies of this design were made during the late 19th century in Belgium, with smaller numbers also produced in Spain, France and the US.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://guns.connect.fi/gow/QA14.html |access-date=2006-08-03 |publisher= Gunwriters | last=Kekkonen |first=P.T. |title=British Bulldog revolver}}</ref> They remained reasonably popular until the Second World War, but are now generally sought after only as collectors' pieces, since ammunition for them is for the most part no longer commercially manufactured.

===Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver===
{{Main article|Webley–Fosbery Automatic Revolver}}
[[File:Webley-Fosbery Handgun.jpg|thumb|right|Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver]]
A highly unusual example of an "automatic revolver", the Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver was produced between 1900 and 1915, and available in both a six-shot .455 Webley version, and an eight-shot [[.38 ACP]] (not to be confused with [[.380 ACP]]) version.<ref>{{harvnb|Dowell|1987|p=128}}</ref>
Unusually for a revolver, the Webley-Fosbery had a safety catch, and the light trigger pull and reputation for accuracy ensured that the Webley-Fosbery remained popular with target shooters long after production had finished.<ref>{{harvnb|Maze|2002|p=78}}</ref>