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3 unusual facts about Remington


.17 HMR

By 2004 CCI, Federal Cartridge and Remington had each introduced .17 HMR ammunition offerings.

CCI Ammunition loads all of the .17 HMR ammunition for the CCI, Federal Cartridge, Hornady, and Remington brands.

Remington, Virginia

Later, it was a stop on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad called Rappahannock Station, but the O&A was eventually absorbed into the Norfolk Southern system, and the Remington spur fell into disuse.


.204 Ruger

The 222 Remington Magnum provides about 5% more usable (below the neck) case capacity than the most popular member of the family, the NATO 5.56×45 mm (.223

.280 Remington

SAAMI pressure limit for the .280 Remington is set at 60,000 PSI, 50,000 CUP.

.405 Winchester

In addition to the Winchester Model 1895, the .405 Winchester was also available in the Winchester Model 1885 Single Shot Rifle, the Remington-Lee bolt action rifle (from 1904 to 1906), and a number of British and European double rifles.

Abe Walsh

Walsh left Remington in 1998 to launch a magazine consulting career and launched Cabela's Outfitter Journal and Mossy Oak Hunting the Country Magazine.

Alex Steinweiss

Starting in around 1950, Steinweiss did the covers and record label for Remington, and began a more than 20 year association with both Decca and London Records.

Burnelli RB-1

The Burnelli RB-1, often known as the Remington-Burnelli Airliner, was an American passenger biplane from 1920, designed by Vincent Burnelli.

Charles Katz

He received a BS in mathematics at Temple University in 1950 and an MS at the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, then went to work at Remington-Rand with Grace Hopper on the development of compilers for her Univac programming languages beginning with A-2, followed by MATH-MATIC and FLOW-MATIC.

Charles Lee Remington

He was born to Pardon Sheldon and Maud Remington in Reedville, Virginia, on January 19, 1922.

Crossroads of the World

It has been used for location shooting in many films, including L.A. Confidential and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, in TV shows, including Dragnet and Remington Steele, and in commercials by McDonald's, Ford, and Mattel.

Engineering Research Associates

For a time the two companies operated as independent units within Remington, with ERA focusing on scientific and military customers, while Eckert–Mauchly's UNIVACs were sold to business customers.

Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days

Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days is a 1991 documentary of American Western artist Frederic Remington made for the PBS series American Masters and produced and directed by Tom Neff It was written by Neff and Louise LeQuire.

Harvey A. Moyer

During that period, Syracuse was home to four typewriter companies including L. C. Smith & Bros., The Monarch Typewriter Company, Remington Typewriter Company and Smith Premier Typewriter Works.

James Paris Lee

The Model 1879 was adopted by China and the US Navy, and two later designs - the Remington-Lee M1885 and the Winchester-Lee or Lee Navy M1895 - were also adopted militarily and sold commercially.

Langham Working Men's Club

The Lord Mayor of Haringey in 1967 was Mrs A.F. Remington and she pulled the first pint in the new lounge of the Langham that year.

Lobster Records

The label started with Bad Neighbor, a Montecito based rock band, with a huge local following featuring Alan Duncan and Mark Bennett on guitars, Sean Murphy on drums, Todd Roll on Bass and Zak Remington on lead vocals.

M1917 Enfield

A third manufacturer, Eddystone Arsenal - a subsidiary of Remington - was tooled up at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania.

In addition to Remington's production at Ilion, New York and Eddystone, Pennsylvania, Winchester produced the rifle at their New Haven, Connecticut plant, a combined total more than twice the 1903's production, and was the unofficial service rifle.

Marcellus Hartley Dodge

Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. (1881–1963), chairman of the board of Remington Arms Company

Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr. (1908–1930), heir to the Remington-Rockefeller fortune, son of the above

National Sporting Goods Association

Such iconic names as Evinrude, Colt, Remington, Riddell, du Pont, Shakespeare, Coleman, Cramer, Head, Brunswick, Dassler, Easton and Knight are among those whose accomplishments have been immortalized with their Hall of Fame inductions.

Philo Remington

Philo Remington (October 31, 1816 – April 4, 1889) was the eldest son of Eliphalet Remington, inventor of the Remington rifle.

Platon Obukhov

He has translated more than 30 books by English-speaking authors, including books by Emerson Hough, Frederick Remington, Frederick Manfred, George Bird Grinnell, and Martin Gilbert.

Remington Arms

Corporate Headquarters: The corporate headquarters for Remington Arms is located at Madison, North Carolina.

Remington College

Incorporated into the Remington College online classes are Flash-driven lectures that include audio, written text, video clips, and knowledge checks.

Remington Model 1858

Remington percussion revolvers and conversions have appeared in notable movie scenes in films such as The Big Trail, Pale Rider, Gone with the Wind, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as early episodes of Bonanza.

Remington Model 30

The Remington Model 30 is a US sporting rifle of the inter-war period based on the military P14/M1917 Enfield rifle action, which was manufactured for the British and US governments during World War I.

Remington Model 51

General George S. Patton owned a Remington 51 and was thought to favor the weapon.

Remington Model 700

On 20 October 2010, CNBC televised a program, Remington Under Fire: a CNBC Investigation, reporting that the trigger mechanism used prior to 2007 on the model 700 could fire without the trigger being squeezed.

Remington Model 7600

The Remington Model 7600 series rifles and carbines, the Model 7600P, and the Model 7615P are legal and available to own in all the states and territories of Australia under a Category A/B Firearms License except for Western Australia, where the Model 7615P has been restricted due to the rifle's ability to take M16/AR-15 magazines.

Remington Rand

Initially produced by Remington Arms, the Remington Typewriters were the first to use the QWERTY keyboard layout.

Remington XP-100

The XP-100 was based on Remington's short action bolt action carbine, the Remington Model 40X, which influenced the later Remington Model 600 rifle.

Rich Good

His first recognized musical work was as a songwriter and founding member of San Francisco band The Pleased, alongside Joanna Newsom, Noah Georgeson, Genaro Vergoglini, Luckey Remington and Jason Clark.

Sebastian Moran

In Flashman and the Tiger, during the battle of Rorke's Drift, Moran demonstrates amazing speed and unearthly accuracy with a Remington M1875 .45 revolver.

Shadyside, Houston

Remington, named after Frederic Remington, Cullinan's favorite painter, follows a curve path, from Main Street to Sunset Boulevard.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Steven S. Smith

Smith's monographs include Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings), Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate (Brookings), with Sarah Binder, and The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma (Princeton), with Thomas Remington.

UNIPRINTER

The UNIPRINTER read metal UNIVAC magnetic tape using a tape reader and typed the data at 10 characters per second using a modified Remington typewriter.

Why Baby Why

The recording session for "Why Baby Why" took place in Houston, Texas's Gold Star Studios and featured the house lineup of Glenn Barber on lead guitar, Herb Remington on pedal steel guitar, Tony Sepolio on fiddle, and Doc Lewis on piano.

William P. Remington

Remington later studied for the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1905.


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