Welcome to immediately’s Photo of the Day! The Armstrong & Taylor carbine was a singular single-shot breechloader patented in 1862 by the Kentucky partnership of James W. Armstrong and John Taylor. Its defining function was a rotating barrel meeting that opened for loading through a button on the highest tang. Because the barrel rotated round a pin, an integral cam-operated extractor ejected the spent casing. Hoping to safe a army contract, the inventors submitted their carbine to the 1866 U.S. Military breechloading rifle trials. There it managed to fireside 100 rounds of .41 rimfire at 14 rounds per minute. Nevertheless, it was eradicated within the first spherical together with 21 different designs, deemed unsuitable in comparison with the ultimately chosen Allin “Trapdoor” Springfield conversion.
“Armstrong & Taylor of Augusta, Kentucky, was a partnership of James W. Armstrong and John Taylor, co-patentees of a firearm protected by US Patent 37025 of November 1862. One gun was submitted to the US Military trials of 1865, though rejected by the federal government. The barrel rotated on a longitudinal pin to show the chamber; a cam observe minimize within the barrel pin operated the extractor routinely because the breech was opened.”
LOT #1416: (A) VERY RARE ARMSTRONG & TAYLOR SWIVEL BREECH SINGLE SHOT CIVIL WAR PERIOD CARBINE. (n.d.). Morphy Auctions. {photograph}. Retrieved Could 2, 2024, from https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/_a__very_rare_armstrong___taylor_swivel_breech_sin-lot459300.aspx.
