Webley Model 1904 at James D Julia

The Model 1904 was basically the first working automatic pistol made by Webley (there was a 1903 toolroom experiment, but it didn t really work). Like all the Webley automatic that would follow, it was designed by William Whiting. The 1904 was the company s first effort at making a semiautomatic sidearm for the British military, so it was chambered for the. 455 cartridge (a special rimless version made by Kynoch, after early experiments using the. 455 rimmed revolver a