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Winchester Repeating Arms Company

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms and ammunition. The firm was established in 1866 by Oliver Winchester and was located in New Haven, Connecticut. The firm went into receivership in 1931 and was bought by the Western Cartridge Company, a forerunner of the Olin Corporation. The Winchester brand name is still owned by the Olin Corporation, which makes ammunition under that name. The Winchester name is also used under license for firearms produced by two subsidiaries of the Herstal Group – FN Herstal of Belgium and the Browning Arms Company of Ogden, Utah.

Not to be confused with U.S. Repeating Arms Company.

Company type

Private

Arms industry

New Haven Arms Company

1866 (1866)

Oliver Winchester

1931 (1931) (receivership)

Bought by Western Cartridge Company (which later became part of the Olin Corporation)

Winchester-Western Company

New Haven, Connecticut
,
U.S.

Firearms, ammunition and accessories

winchesterguns.com (arms)
winchester.com (ammunition)

(1857–1880).

Oliver Winchester

(1880–1881), son of Oliver Winchester and husband of Sarah Winchester.

William Wirt Winchester

William Converse (1881–1890), husband of Mary A. Pardee.

Thomas Grey Bennett (1890–1910), husband of Hannah Jane Winchester.

George E. Hodson (1910–1915), partner of Oliver in the company.

Winchester Bennett (1915–1918), son of Thomas Gray Bennett.

Thomas Grey Bennett (1918–1919), father of Winchester Bennett.

(1919–1924).

John Edward Otterson

Archives[edit]

The company's factory collection is owned by the Cody Firearms Museum in Cody, Wyoming.[18]

Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District

Winchester Rifle

Benjamin Tyler Henry

William Mason

John Browning

T.C. Johnson

List of Winchester Models

Newhallville

United States Cartridge Company

single-shot rifle

Winchester Model 1885

lever-action rifle

Winchester Model 1886

lever-action shotgun

Winchester Model 1887/1901

lever-action rifle

Winchester Model 1894

slide-action shotgun

Winchester Model 1897

.22 rifle

Winchester Model 1903

slide-action hammerless shotgun

Winchester Model 1912

double-barreled shotgun

Winchester Model 21

bolt-action .22 match rifle

Winchester Model 52

bolt-action rifle

Winchester Model 54

bolt-action rifle

Winchester Model 70

Winchester XPR bolt-action rifle

lever-action rifle

Winchester Model 71

slide-action shotgun

Winchester Model 1200

the 1950 film

Winchester '73

Antique Guns

Winchester Mystery House

McLerran, Wayne (2014). Browning Model 1885 Black Powder Cartridge Rifle - 3rd Edition: A Reference Manual for the Shooter, Collector & Gunsmith. TexasMac Publishing.  978-0-9893702-5-7, 418 pages.

ISBN

Trevelyan, Laura. The Winchester: The Gun That Built an American Dynasty (Yale University Press, 2016). xxii, 242 pp.

(Winchester firearms made by Herstal Group subsidiaries)

Winchesterguns.com website

(Winchester ammunition made by the Olin Corporation)

Winchester.com website

Archived 2011-02-08 at the Wayback Machine

Tribute to former Winchester employees (New Haven)

(HAER) No. CT-28, "Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Tract K Shooting Range, 125 Munson Street (rear section), New Haven, New Haven County, CT", 8 photos, 14 data pages, 1 photo caption page

Historic American Engineering Record