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Enfield No. 2
The Enfield No. 2 is a British double-action revolver that was intended to be the successor to the Webley Mk VI service revolver. Introduced in 1931, it has a smaller frame and is chambered in .38 S&W instead of the bigger .455 Webley caliber. One of the examples shown here was known as the No. 2 Mk I*, which features a bobbed 'anti snag' hammer due to troubles reported by tank crewmen. Supposedly, the first model's hammer spur would catch and snag.
Following World War I, the British Army sought a smaller, lighter revolver firing a .38 caliber round that produced lower recoil than the .455 Webley cartridge. Existing .455 caliber Webley revolvers offered excellent stopping power at close range, but the heavy recoil of the round hampered follow-up shots. The British government liked the .38 S&W round fired by the Webley Mk IV, but did not want to pay Webley & Scott for its design. In 1926-1927, the state-owned Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock made changes to the lockwork and trigger mechanism, largely in the provision of a hammer safety lock and a separate cylinder lock. Like the Webley revolver series, it uses a top-break action to load. With these modifications the revolver was designated the Enfield No. 2. Its full title was Pistol, Revolver, Number 2 Mark 1. Because of its close visual similarities to the Mk IV revolver, Webley ended up suing the government and was eventually compensated £1,250.
The No. 2 was officially introduced in 1932. During World War II with demand outstripping the ability to produce the Enfield No. 2, the British government ironically ended up purchasing a large number of Webley Mk IVs for issue. The Enfield No. 2 served as the official sidearm of the British Army until 1954, when it was replaced by the Browning Hi-Power. Over 300,000 were manufactured during its production life.
Specifications
(1932 - 1957)
- Type: Revolver
- Caliber(s): .38 S&W
- Weight: 1.7 lbs (0.8 kg)
- Length: 10.25 in (26 cm)
- Barrel length: 5.03 in (12.8 cm)
- Capacity: Six-round cylinder
- Fire Modes: Double-Action
The Enfield No. 2 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Desert Rats | Charles Tingwell | Lt. Harry Castairs | Mk I | 1953 |
| Allied officers | ||||
| A Hill in Korea | George Baker | Lieutenant Butler | 1956 | |
| Ice Cold in Alex | British officers | Mostly seen in holsters | 1958 | |
| The Giant Behemoth | British sergeant | 1959 | ||
| Yesterday's Enemy | British officers and sergeants | 1959 | ||
| Konga | British soldier | 1961 | ||
| The Return of Doctor Mabuse | Gert Fröbe | Commissioner Lohmann | 1961 | |
| Police | ||||
| The Guns of Navarone | Anthony Quayle | Roy Franklin | 1962 | |
| These Are the Damned | Alexander Knox | Bernard | Mk I* | 1962 |
| Guards | ||||
| The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle | Rudolf Fernau | Lucius Clark | Mk.I* | 1963 |
| Gerhard Hartig | Det. Watson | |||
| Help! | Victor Spinetti | Professor Foot | Mk.I* | 1965 |
| Pierrot Goes Wild (Pierrot le Fou) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | Ferdinand 'Pierrot' Griffon | Mk.I* | 1965 |
| Jimmy Karoubi | The dwarf | |||
| OAS members | ||||
| Treasure of the Aztecs | Rik Battaglia | Capt. Verdoja | Mk.I | 1965 |
| Lex Barker | Dr. Karl Sternau | |||
| Pyramid of the Sun God | Rik Battaglia | Capt. Verdoja | Mk.I | 1965 |
| The Trygon Factor | Conrad Monk | Pasco | Mk.I | 1966 |
| Eddi Arent | Emil Clossen | |||
| Cast a Giant Shadow | Kirk Douglas | "Mickey" Marcus | 1966 | |
| James Donald | Major Safir | in hip holster | ||
| When Eight Bells Toll | Anthony Hopkins | Philip Calvert | Mk.I | 1971 |
| Mafia Junction | Fake British constables | 1973 | ||
| Fear over the City (Peur sur la ville) | Adalberto Maria Merli | Minos | Mk.I | 1975 |
| The Phoney (Le Faux-cul) | Seen in Maxime's cupboard; Mk.I* | 1975 | ||
| The Last Round (Il conto è chiuso) | Grimaldi's bodyguard | Mk.I | 1976 | |
| The Island of Dr Moreau | Burt Lancaster | Dr. Paul Moreau | Mk. I* | 1977 |
| Michael York | Andrew Braddock | |||
| Escape to Athena | Claudia Cardinale | Eleana | No. 2 Mk I* | 1979 |
| Brothel girl | ||||
| Bukit Kepong | Jins Shamsudin | Sgt. Jamil Mohd Shah | No.2 Mk I* | 1981 |
| Bukit Kepong village chief | ||||
| Communist lieutenant | ||||
| Wild Geese II | Paul Antrim | RSM James Murphy | Mk.I* | 1985 |
| City on Fire | Danny Lee | Fu | Mk.I | 1987 |
| The Beast of War | Young Mujahideen | Mk.I | 1988 | |
| Romper Stomper | James McKenna | Bubs | 1992 | |
| The Hound of London | Patrick Macnee | Sherlock Holmes | Mk.I* | 1993 |
| John Scott-Paget | Dr. Watson | |||
| Set It Off | Queen Latifah | Cleo | 1996 | |
| Serenity | Bar patron | Snubnose | 2005 | |
| Bandidas | Steve Zahn | Quentin | 2006 | |
| Black Book | A Resistance fighter | 2006 | ||
| The Bullet Vanishes | Nicholas Tse | Captain Guo Zhui | 2012 | |
| Wang Hai | nikel plated | |||
| Banklady | Charly Hübner | Hermann Wittorf | Mk. I* | 2013 |
| Nadeshda Brennicke | Gisela Werler | |||
| The Monuments Men | Hugh Bonneville | Lt. Donald Jeffries | Mk I | 2014 |
| Jean Dujardin | Lt. Jean Claude Clermont | No.2 Mk I* | ||
| Bravo V | Sofi Jikan | Sidek Tapa | No.2 Mk I* | 2015 |
| Chew Kin Wah | Commander Lim Yatt | |||
| Female communist guard | ||||
| The Keeper | Harry Melling | Sergeant Smythe | in holster | 2018 |
Television
| Title/Episode | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Avengers | Nigel Davenport | Major Robertson | "The Danger Makers" (Season 4, Episode 20)) | 1961 - 1969 |
| Diana Rigg | Emma Peel | "Two's a Crowd", Season 4, Episode 12 | ||
| The War Game | . | British police officers | Mk. I* | 1965 |
| The Professionals | Billy | Ep. "Old Dog with New Tricks" | 1977 - 1981 | |
| Turkel's man | ||||
| Reilly: Ace of Spies | Sam Neill | Sidney Reilly | Mk. I | 1983 |
| MacGyver (1985) - Season 1 | - | Khalil's tribesmen | "Slow Death" (S1E19) / Mk. I* | 1986 |
| The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes | Norma West | Lady Diana Swinstead | Mk. I*; (S02E01) | 1992 |
| Inspector Morse | Gavin Richards | Steven Trevors | Mk. I*, "The Day of the Devil" (S07E02) | 1993 |
| Gilly Coman | Holly Trevors | |||
| Keith Allen | John Peter Barrie | |||
| Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia | Alexi Kaye Campbell | Joseph Mercado | 2001 | |
| Frank Riva - Season 2 | Filipe Ferreir | Alfredo Herrera | Mk. I* | 2004 |
| The Somme | Ed Stoppard | Capt. Charlie May | 2005 | |
| Dresden | John Light | Robert Newman | Mk. I* | 2006 |
| Louis El-Ghussein | A German Boy | |||
| Benjamin Sadler | Alexander Wenninger | |||
| British pilots | ||||
| German civilians | ||||
| Lewis | Pip Carter | Paul Hopkiss | "The Dead of Winter" (S04E01) | 2010 |
| The Promise | Amir Najjar | Hassan | 2011 | |
| Agatha Christie's Marple | A stagehand | "Greenshaw's Folly" (S06E02) | 2013 | |
| Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond | Dominic Cooper | Commander Ian Fleming | Mk. I*; Ep. 2 | 2014 |
| Father Brown - Season 3 | Mk. I*; The murder weapon; "The Truth in the Wine" (S03E09) | 2015 | ||
| The Blacklist | Assorted villains | 2015 | ||
| Endeavour - Season 5 | Antonia Clarke | Ruth Astor | Mk. I; (S0501) | 2018 |
| Father Brown - Season 7 | Billy Postlethwaite | Edmund Noon | Mk. I*; (S07E05) | 2019 |
| Paris Police 1900 | Mk. I*; seen in gun crate | 2021 | ||
| Ms. Marvel - Season 1 | British soldiers | holstered; "Time and Again" (S1E05) | 2022 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini | The Great Wise Man | Mk. I | 1996 |
| Sweat Punch | Yuko | Mk. I | 2001 - 2007 |
| Yamibo: Darkness, The Hat and the Travelers of the Books | The Drunk | "Yōko" (E02) | 2003 |
| Siberian Tiger | |||
| Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood | Riza Hawkeye & Brother Cray | Snubnose | 2009 - 2010 |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | Indian police officers | S2E12, "Empress" | 2014 |
| The Dragon Dentist | Bell | Mk. I with shorter barrel | 2017 |
| Blanco | |||
| Enemy officers | |||
| Princess Principal | Prefect | Mk. I | 2018 |
| Zelda | |||
| Kingdom soldiers |
Video Games
| Game Title | Referred as | Mods | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eternal Darkness | "Revolver" | Mk.I* | 2001 | |
| Forgotten Hope | 2003 | |||
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | "Enfield .38" | Mk.I | 2003 | |
| Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 | 2006 | |||
| Call of Duty: WWII | 2017 | |||
| Squad 44: Letters From The Front | "Enfield No. 2 Mk. I" | Mk. I | 2018 | |
| Enlisted | "Enfield No.2 MkI" | Mk.I | 2021 |
See Also
- Royal Small Arms Factory - A list of weapons produced by RSAF Enfield