Among other things, in 1878, he received a contract from the British Army for the supply of revolvers.īetween 18 Tranter secured 24 patents for weapons, 19 for weapons cartridges. As early as 1868, Tranter began the manufacture of centerfire revolvers.īy 1867, his company expanded its production with a new factory in Aston Cross (England) under the name "The Tranter Gun and Pistol Factory". He started production using the same frame. In 1863, Tranter secured the patent for rimfire cartridges in England, a new design. The success continuesĪfter the American Civil War, production continued of the Tranter percussion revolver because many people thought percussion firearms were safer and cheaper than the "new-fangled" cartridge designs of the time. Tranter developed an Army model (.44 caliber) and a Navy model (.36 caliber) for the U.S. The weapon was originally produced in six calibers. Since these weapons were reliable and proven to be functional they soon enjoyed a great popularity among the Southern States Army. Griswold & Company, continued to distribute Tranter's guns. Following the outbreak of the civil war, Hyde and Goodrich dissolved their partnership, and its successors, Thomas, Griswold & Company, and A. Tranter had a contract with the importing firm Hyde & Goodrich in New Orleans to import and distribute his weapons. demands for foreign weapons in the South increased, because the Confederacy no longer had access to the weapons factories in the North. With the beginning of the Civil War in the U.S. Tranter modified the system by Adams and in 1853 patented the double-trigger. The most interesting of his models was the double-trigger revolver. Basically, it was a modified Beaumont-Adams Revolver The first model was sold under the name Tranter-Adams-Kerr. The first model of his own design used the frame of an Adams type revolver with modification in the mechanism he jointly developed with James Kerr. By 1853, Tranter had produced in excess of 8000 percussion revolvers. William Tranter (1816 - 1890) was an English Weapon-smith, producing variations of the models used by Robert Adams.
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