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Colley Cartridge Magazine Attachment

In the past we’ve looked at a number of other magazine systems developed for the Henry-Martini, including the convoluted Harston magazine and the one developed by Owen Jones for use on his adapted Martini-Henry rifles.

Abraham Colley, of South Richmond in Victoria, Australia, patented (in the US) his design for an attachable gravity-fed magazine for the Martini-Henry in October 1889 - a month before C.G. Harston first magazine design was patented in the US.

Here’s how Colley described his magazine in his patent description:

“This invention consists of an improved cartridge-magazine for attachment to those descriptions of rides which have a falling block for receiving cartridges as they are discharged from my magazine. The Martini-Henry rifle is of such a character, and is the one to which my magazine is primarily designed to be attached.”

He goes on to describe the basic design, even mentioning the idea of a double stack feed:

“It consists of a steel box approximating in plan to the shape of a cartridge when laid horizontally-that is to say, one end of the magazine is made wider than the other, the wider end being for the butt-end of the cartridge. It may be made as high as is convenient, the cartridges being laid one on the top of the other, and, if preferred, there may be a second vertical row of cartridges to discharge into the first row; but I think one row will be most convenient and will be generally adopted.”

He explains that to use the magazine it was loaded and fitted onto the side of the receiver. The Martini-Henry functioned as normal and once the first round was fired and the chamber opened and spent case ejected the thumb-piece on the magazine could be actuated, turning it “a simple quarter-turn or less than a quarter-turn of the thumb-crank”, this allowed the next round in the magazine to drop into the loading tray of the rifle through a slot in the base of Colley’s magazine. The operator would then thumb the round into the breech as normal.

It’s a simple system without the springs and lever of Harston’s more complex idea. Although it certainly would have impacted on the rifle’s balance, despite Colley noting that any magazine capacity could be used provided it was practical.

The British military, however, were moving away from the Martini-Henry by the late 1880s with the adoption of the bolt-action, magazine-fed Lee-Metford in 1889. It is possible Colley saw a market for his design with Australia’s militia units which continued to use the Martini-Henry (and other breechloaders) for some time.

Sources:

‘Cartridge Magazine Attachment for Rifles’, A. Colley, US Patent #413032, 15 Oct. 1889, (source)

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