Greener did not believe in breechloaders, his son, W.W. The company's products were also sold for as much as 75 pounds, in the Southern states of America, before the Civil War. In 18, the company received Silver medals at the New York City and Paris Exhibitions. In the 1851 London Exhibition, the company received the highest award 'for guns and barrels perfectly forged and finished'. Greener was appointed to make sporting guns for the Prince Consort. His greatest innovation was the invention of the expanding rifle bullet. He also improved the Harpoon Gun and his model was the one adopted by the Scottish Fisheries, and is still in use today. He was also instrumental in improving the hardness and quality of barrels, by using more steel in their manufacture. Greener was the first to discard vent holes in breeches. Greener began manufacturing his muzzleloaders. Production of Greener weapons started in 1829, when W. Leyton Greener, Harry's son and fourth generation took over as Chairman in 1951 and today the company has a fifth generation, Graham Greener, as one of its directors. William Wellington Greener was succeeded by two of his sons, Harry Greener and Charles Greener. Greener, the company established offices in Birmingham, London, Hull, Montreal and New York City. William Wellington Greener was responsible for several innovations, as described in the sections below, and it was on the strength of his inventions that the company became famous. Greener Company, and carried on by William Wellington Greener. When William Greener died in 1869, the two companies were amalgamated together as the W.W. Greener company) and produced his first breechloader in 1864. Hence, his son, William Wellington Greener, struck out a line of his own (the W.W. Greener was a firm believer in the concept of muzzleloaders and refused to make any breechloaders. It was around this time that the company began to really prosper. Money obtained from supplying South Africa with two-groove rifles enabled the company to erect a factory on 'Rifle Hill', Aston, in 1859. Greener was appointed to make guns for Prince Albert. Hence, he moved his business from Newcastle to Birmingham.ĭuring the period of 1845-58, W. In November 1844, he determined that most of the materials and components he used for gun making came from Birmingham, and his business was being hampered by the distance between the two towns. Greener begins in 1829, when William Greener, who had been working in London for Manton, a prominent gun maker, returned to his hometown of Newcastle and founded the W. The company produced its first firearm in 1829 and is still in business, with a fifth generation Greener serving on its board of directors. Greener is a sporting shotgun and rifle manufacturer from England.

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