R F Sedgley

[John Beard]

I doubt it has anything to do with a USMC rifle but since we are talking Sedgley, I have one that is supposed to be an old DCM gun. I bought an 03 and a Garand from the same guy and he said they were both DCM guns, the garand came with paperwork this rifle did not. 800468 with a Sedgley 9-44 barrel. I've heard stories about the late barrels but it is a nice rifle so I kept it.

Your rifle's Sedgley 9-44 dated barrel was delivered on a contract from the U.S. Army Ordnance Dept. Sedgley still had barrel tooling left over from their USMC contracts.

J.B.

[relics6165]

"Someone should do a book or lengthy magazine article on the history of R F Sedgley."

AlanD:

Michael Petrov devoted one chapter of Custom Gunmakers of the 20th Century (Volume 1) to RF Sedgley. That chapter would also have been published as a magazine article in Precision Shooting, both now out of print or out of business.

HTH

[PhillipM]

I know it's not germane to the topic, but I have a commercial 03 Sedgley barrel. Circle S and 3006 marked.

[AlanD]

relics6165. Do you know which issue of Precision Shooter the article on Sedgley appeared in, as I would like to get a copy?

cplnorton. I have had no luck with Sedgley records. However, an archive in Phily has got the following Philadelphia Evening Bulletin articles about Sedgley. The archive has offered to photo copy them and send them to me, but its a bit to far away from my mission of British Military Secondary Issue Small Arms, so if you want them, send me an e-mail through this site -click on my name on a post above - and I will forward the details to you. Here is the list of eight articles.

April 6, 1929 "Robber Scare in Arms Plant"
February 20, 1936 "Says Phila. Firm Got Machine Guns"
September 9, 1940 "Sedgley Plans Expansion"
September 20, 1944 "Local Firm Producing New Flamethrower"
November 16, 1944 "2 Missing Shells Found by Boys"
November 17, 1944 "Search Continued for 3D Rocket Shell"
January 25, 1945 "Receiver is Asked for Sedgley Firm"
March 8, 1945 "Judge Dismisses Sedgley Suit"

Regards

AlanD

[cplnorton]

AlanD,

That would be awesome. Thank you so much sir. I will send you a PM.

[clintonhater]

...an archive in Phily has got the following Philadelphia Evening Bulletin articles about Sedgley.AlanD

Which archive has these papers, and do you know if they have issues between about 1900 and 1919? I assume they are not available online, or it wouldn't be necessary to resort to the antiquated process of photocopying. (Though I remember WELL when a Zerox machine was the very pinnacle of modern technology!) I've found that very few Philly papers are available online, which reinforces my negative opinion of that backward city.

[cplnorton]

Which archive has these papers, and do you know if they have issues between about 1900 and 1919? I assume they are not available online, or it wouldn't be necessary to resort to the antiquated process of photocopying. (Though I remember WELL when a Zerox machine was the very pinnacle of modern technology!) I've found that very few Philly papers are available online, which reinforces my negative opinion of that backward city.

Clarence, I'm pretty sure I know where these are located. I will send you their contact info. Unforunatley no, most of this stuff isn't available online. But I can tell you about how to have them pull it. I will send you a email sir.

[relics6165]

relics6165. Do you know which issue of Precision Shooter the article on Sedgley appeared in, as I would like to get a copy?

Regards

AlanD

AlanD:

Michasl Petrov's Sedgley article was in the June 1999 issue of Precision Shooting and was titled R.F. Sedgley. It was mostly about Sedgley's forays into the semi custom 1903 Springfields (his rifles were often referred to as poor man's Griffin and Howe)and other custom rifles, not a lot on the military side as I recall. What was military was mostly US.

HTH

[AlanD]

Thanks for the issue details.
cplnorton, you have a PM from me.

Regards

AlanD
Sydney

[CPC]

Your rifle's Sedgley 9-44 dated barrel was delivered on a contract from the U.S. Army Ordnance Dept. Sedgley still had barrel tooling left over from their USMC contracts.

J.B.

Thank you J.B.
Regards,
CC