Joseph Whitworth

The Whitworth Rifle - A Brief Introduction. During the 1850s and 1860s the British service rifle calibre was .577, both for the muzzle-loading Enfield rifle and its breech-loading successor the Snider (a conversion of the Enfield). Early manufacture of the Enfield relied on much hand labour and consequently lead to problems of inconsistent performance, non-interchangeability of parts and slow supply. Joseph Whitworth was approached to provide assistance with regards to the design of appropriate machinery for its manufacture.

• Loading & Cleaning - Two contemporary leaflets concerning loading and cleaning the Whitworth Patent Military Rifle and the Whitworth Patent Cartridge.
• The Whitworth Rifle - A short article describing the merits of the Whitworth as a military rifle, and urging it's adoption by the War Department. [1860]

Whitworth Rifle

• The Manufacture of Small Arms and Artillery. The Times, London, UK, 13 July 1855
• Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects, Rifled Fire-arms - Joseph Whitworth, F.R.S. Longmans, London, UK, 1858
• Report of the Enfield and Whitworth Committee - War Office. UK, 23 April 1861
• Army (Whitworth Rifles). Return respecting the Steel of which the Whitworth Rifle Barrels, which have been issued to the Army, were made; and Copy of Reports of Officers Commanding Regimants or Battalions to whom the Whitworth Rifles were Issued, representing the Efficiency of these Rifles for the Service - War Office. UK, 26 March 1867
• On Fluid Compressed Steel and Rifled Guns - Sir Joseph Whitworth. Privately printed, UK, 1872
• Papers on Mechanical Subjects, Guns and Steel - Sir Joseph Whitworth. Longmans, London, UK, 1873
• On Fluid Compressed Steel and Guns - Sir Joseph Whitworth. Minutes of Proceedings Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, 28 July 1875
• Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bart. - The National Portrait Gallery. Cassel, Petter & Galpin, London, c1878.
• Papers on Mechanical Subjects, Part II: Rifled Small Arms - Sir Joseph Whitworth. London, UK, 1882
• Death of Sir Joseph Whitworth [Obituary]. The Times, London, UK, 24 January 1887
• Memoir of Sir Joseph Whitworth, BART. William Clowes & Sons, London, UK, 1888
• Joseph Whitworth's Rifle - Heman L. Harpster. The American Rifleman, USA, August 1932
• The Whitworth Rifle - Cleves H. Howell, Jr. The American Rifleman, USA, January 1952
• Joseph Whitworth's Rifle - J. Hayden Dalton. The Bulletin, Military Historical Society, London, November 1954
• The Whitworth Register - Prepared by the Whitworth Society. Published after 1955.
• A Wimbledon Prize Rifle of Note - Cleves H. Howell, Jr. The Guns Report, USA, March 1963
• Sir Joseph Whitworth - Engineer of Today - A.E. Musson. The Vickers Magazine (The Overseas Magzine of the Vickers Group of Companies), UK, Summer 1966
• Whitworth Exhibition. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London 18th July - 26th August 1966. (40 page brochure)
• Whitworth's Percussion Rifles - D.W.Bailey II. Guns Review, UK, March 1969
• Whitworth Rifle - J.Morgan Phillips. The Gun Report, USA, December 1969
• The Confederate Whitworth - Philip Baron Ennis. The Gun Report, USA, June 1970
• The Whitworth Rifle - DeWitt Bailey II. Gun Digest, USA, 1971
• Hexagonal Bullet Moulds - George Arnold. Black Powder Journal, MLAGB, UK, 1985.
• Joseph Whitworth: Toolmaker - Terence Kilburn. Scarthin Books, UK, 1987. ISBN 0 907758 22 3
• The Confederate Whitworth Sharpshooters - John Anderson Morrow. Privately published 1989. Reprinted in 2002.
• The Westley Richards Whitworth Rifle - Philip Baron Ennis. The Gun Report, USA, January 1974
• The Whitworth Rifle - Geoff Allen. Target Gun, UK, September 1992
• Sir Joseph Whitworth - Geoffrey Boothroyd. Guns Review, UK, July 1994
• The Whitworth Rifle - Geoff Allen. Classic Arms, UK, August 1994
• Sir Joseph Whitworth 'The World's Best Mechanician' - Norman Atkinson. Sutton Publishing, UK, 1996. ISBN 0 7509 1211 1
• Sir Joseph Whitworth - Geoffrey Boothroyd. Classic Arms, UK, Jan/Mar 1996
• Sir Joseph Whitworth and His Rifle - Matthew Schneiderman. The Gun Report, USA, February 1999
• Instructions for Loading and Cleaning the Whitworth Patent Military Rifle [Reprint of contemporary information. Black Powder Journal, MLAGB, UK, 2000.
• The Confederate Whitworth Rifle - R.E. Neville, Jr. Civil War magazine, USA, Vol. 29 No. 2, 2002
• Whitworth : The Man Who Invented Accuracy - Ross Seyfried. Rifle Magazine, USA, January/February 2003
• Sharpshooters of the Confederacy - Martin Pegler. American Rifleman, USA, November 2007
• Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bart. - Black Powder, MLAGB, UK, Spring 2008 (reprint of 1878 article; see above)
• Brunel's Polygonal Rifle - David Minshall. Black Powder, MLAGB, UK, Winter 2009