Colt used a combination of renting the Whitney firm's facilities and subcontracting parts to the firm to continue his pursuit of revolver manufacture. Eli Whitney Jr (born 1820), the son of the cotton-gin-developer patriarch, was the head of the family armory and a successful arms maker and innovator of the era. This armory was run by the family of Eli Whitney. Having no factory or machinery to produce the pistols, Samuel Colt collaborated with the Whitney armory of Whitneyville, Connecticut. During the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), this prototype was seen by Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker who made some suggestions to Colt about making it in a larger caliber. Ĭolt made another attempt at revolver production in 1846 and submitted a prototype to the US government. Production had ended at the New Jersey corporation by 1842. The United States Marine Corps and United States Army reported quality problems with these earliest Colt revolvers. The Colt Paterson revolver found patchy success and failure some worked well, while others had problems. Interchangeability was not complete in the Paterson works, and traditional gunsmithing techniques did not fill the gap entirely there. Making firearms with interchangeable parts was still rather new (it had reached commercial viability only about a decade before), and it was not yet easy to replicate across different factories. This corporation suffered quality problems in production. This was followed shortly thereafter in late 1837 by the introduction of the Colt Paterson. The first firearm manufactured at the new Paterson plant, however, was the Colt First Model Ring Lever rifle beginning in 1837. That same year, he founded his first corporation for its manufacture, the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey, Colt's Patent.
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patents in 1836, one on February 25 (later numbered U.S. Samuel Colt received a British patent on his improved design for a revolver in 1835, and two U.S. Ĭolt Model of 1848 Holster Pistol (First Model Dragoon) The company was bought by Česká zbrojovka Group in 2021. Following the loss of its M4 contract in 2013, the reunited Colt was briefly in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, starting in 2015 and emerging in January 2016. The two companies remained in the same West Hartford, Connecticut location cross-licensing certain merchandise before reuniting in 2013. Colt's Manufacturing Company served the civilian market, while Colt Defense served the law enforcement, military, and private security markets worldwide. In 2002, Colt Defense was split off from Colt's Manufacturing Company. The most successful and famous of these are numerous M16 carbines, including the Colt Commando family, and the M4 carbine. Though they did not develop it, for a long time Colt was also primarily responsible for all AR-15 and M16 rifle production, as well as many derivatives of those firearms. The most famous Colt products include the Colt Walker, made in 1847 in the facilities of Eli Whitney Jr., the Colt Single Action Army or Peacemaker, the Colt Python, and the Colt M1911 pistol, which is currently the longest-standing military and law enforcement service handgun in the world and is still used today.
Although Samuel Colt did not invent the revolver concept, his designs resulted in the first very successful ones. Colt's earliest designs played a major role in the popularization of the revolver and the shift away from earlier single-shot pistols. Colt is known for the engineering, production, and marketing of firearms, most especially between the 1850s and World War I, when it was a dominating force in its industry and a seminal influence on manufacturing technology. It is the successor corporation to Colt's earlier firearms-making efforts, which started in 1836. Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC ( CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by Samuel Colt and is now a subsidiary of Czech holding company Česká zbrojovka Group.
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