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Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company

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104: 174:, 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 451: 211:, a modified Maxim, a belt-fed, water-cooled machine gun that fired explosive 1-pound (0.45 kg) rounds (smokeless ammunition) at 450 rounds per minute, which became known as the "pom-pom". 200:. 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 over Armstrongs. 466: 171: 461: 486: 456: 491: 481: 476: 156: 471: 395: 370: 345: 312: 436: 103: 245: 159:
retained a substantial shareholding in the new Maxim-Nordenfelt combine and ‘exerted a direct influence over its management’.
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Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise
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Nordenfelt from competing with Maxim in the guns and ammunition trade for 25 years.
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NSW Law Reform Commission. Working Paper 4 (1969) - Covenants in Restraint of Trade
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The company produced a range of light artillery, machine guns and ammunition.
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It was the subject of one of history's most famous court cases in 1894,
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NORDENFELT vs THE MAXIM NORDENFELT GUNS AND AMMUNITION COMPANY, LIMITED
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The Battleship Builders Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
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http://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=2490
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328.46 million in 2023) worth of shares to finance the merger.
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The company competed against the Armstrong subsidiary
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Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
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Nordenfelt v Maxim, Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co
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Lamoreaux, Naomi R; Raff, Daniel M. G, eds. (1995).
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House of Rothschild, The World’s Bankers, 1819-1999
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Index

Armaments
Vickers, Sons and Maxim
London
UK
Machine guns
Artillery
Ammunition

Erith
Cassier's Magazine
Hiram Maxim
Thorsten Nordenfelt
Rothschild
£
US$
Nathan Rothschild
Nordenfelt v Maxim, Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co
preventing
Elswick Ordnance Company
Vickers, Sons & Maxim
Second Boer War
QF 1-pounder
Second Boer War
Boer Commando
Gross Domestic Product deflator
"What Was the U.K. GDP Then?"
MeasuringWorth
The Social History of the Machine Gun
37
ISBN

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