- Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company
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Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company Industry Armaments Fate Acquired Successor Vickers, Sons and Maxim Founded 1888 Defunct 1897 Headquarters 32 Victoria Street SW, London, UK Products Machine guns
Artillery
AmmunitionThe Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company was the result of a takeover by Hiram Maxim of Thorsten Nordenfelt's Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company in 1888.
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The company produced a range of light artillery, machine guns and ammunition.
It was the subject of one of history's most famous court cases in 1894, Nordenfelt v Maxim, Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co, in which Nordenfelt successfully claimed that the takeover condition preventing him from competing with Maxim for 25 years "in any way" was an unreasonable restraint of trade, but failed to overturn the main condition preventing Nordenfelt from competing with Maxim in the guns and ammunition trade for 25 years.
The company competed against the Armstrong subsidiary Elswick Ordnance Company's range of armaments, which included Hotchkiss guns made under licence.
The company became part of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, which was taken over by Vickers, Sons and Company in 1897 to form Vickers, Sons & Maxim. This gave Vickers a complete naval shipbuilding, engineering and armaments capability, an advantage Armstrongs had held for many years, and eventually allowed Vickers to take Armstrongs over.
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Categories:- Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
- Defence companies of the United Kingdom
- Companies established in 1888
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