Engineering:Landstad revolver

Landstad revolver
A patent of the Landstad revolver, filed on the 11th of April, 1899
Type	Revolver
Place of origin	Norway
Production history
Designer	Halvard Landstad
Designed	1900
Specifications
Cartridge	7.5mm 1882 Ordnance
Calibre	7.5mm
Action	Blowback
Feed system	Single-stack, single-row-feed magazine

The Landstad revolver was an automatic revolver of Norwegian origin. The weapon had an unusual feeding device that used both a 2 round cylinder and a grip inserted magazine.

It was chambered for 7.5mm Nagant, which at the time of the creation of the Landstad was also used in the Swedish Model 1887 and Norwegian Model 1893 Nagant revolvers.

History

The revolver design was patented in 1899 by Halvard Landstad, from Kristiana (now Oslo). Landstad designed the revolver with his own money and presented it to military trials in 1901. The gun never went into production because the revolver failed in the trials, but the inventor kept a prototype of the gun. It was donated to the British National Rifle Association after the inventor's death in 1955. In 1977 the revolver was sold in an auction to a Norse weapons collector.

See also

• Dardick 1500
• Mateba 6 Unica
• Webley Fosbery

Further reading

• Karl Egil Hanevik (2003) (in Norwegian Bokmål). Kongsberg-Colten. Vedlegg A-1: Ingeniør Halvard Folkestad Landstads «Automatiske revolver», pp. 239-242: Hanevik våpen. ISBN 9788299314329. 

External links

• Third-party hosted images: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] (archive)
• Landstat 1900 Automatic Revolver - Forgotten Weapons
• United Kingdom patent: GB patent 189922479A1 Halvard Folkestad Landstad, "Improvements in automatic revolvers", January 13, 1900 (archive)
• German patent: DE patent 114184C Halvard Folkestad Landstad, "Selbstthatiger revolver", August 1, 1899 (archive)
• Norway patent: NO patent 8564 Halvard Folkestad Landstad, "Automatisk revolver", April 11, 1899 (archive)