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Patented 21 ordnance related inventions including the armor-piercing Pallister shot
PALLISER, Major Sir William (1830-1882) Irish born politician and inventor. Member of Parliament for Taunton from 1880. His brother was Captain John Palliser, a geographer and explorer. Palliser patented 21 ordnance-related inventions, including the armor-piercing Palliser shot. He designed the “Palliser conversion” technique which was used successfully to convert many of Britain’s obsolescent but still serviceable smoothbore muzzle-loading guns into more modern rifled muzzle-loaders in the late 1860’s into the 1870’s. Autograph letter signed, a very nice one-page example, 19 Earls Court Square, 29 Dec. 1877. 8’x5” Palliser writes to F. Wardell, The Bolton Arms, Earls Court Road, about a legal dispute..................$110.00
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