Winchester Repeating Arms Company was created in 1866.
U.S. Repeating Arms Company was created in 1981.
U.S. Repeating Arms Company
Winchester Repeating Arms Company was founded in 1866. It originated from the New Haven Arms Company, which was established in 1856, and was acquired by Oliver Winchester. The company became famous for its lever-action rifles, particularly the Winchester Model 1873, often referred to as "the gun that won the West."
Oliver F. Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. in New Haven, Connecticut in 1866.
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company has been defunct since March 31, 2006. The name is now licensed to the Browning Arms Company and two subsidiaries of a company in Belgium.
Winchester Repeating Arms Company does not still make shotguns. The company was founded in 1866 by Oliver Winchester and was defunct on March 31, 2006.
The ancestor of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company was the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company. It was later reorganized into the New Haven Arms Company, its largest stockholder being Oliver Winchester. After the American Civil War, Oliver Winchester renamed the company the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. Winchester Repeating Arms Company went into receivership in 1931, and was bought at bankruptcy auction by the Olin family's Western Cartridge Company. Oliver Winchester's firm would maintain a nominal existence until 1935, when Western Cartridge merged with its subsidiary to form Winchester-Western Company; in 1944 the firearms and ammunition operations would be reorganized as the Winchester-Western Division of Olin Industries. In 1980 the plant was sold to its employees, incorporated as the U.S. Repeating Arms Company (USRAC), together with a license to make Winchester arms. Production of ammunition and cartridge components under the Winchester Ammunition Inc. name was retained by Olin, not licensed to USRAC. From 1981 until 2006, Winchester guns were made by the USRAC. When USRAC went bankrupt in 1989 it was acquired by a French holding company, then sold to an arms making cartel sponsored by the Belgian Herstal Group, which also owns gun makers Fabrique National (FN) and Browning.
Winchester repeating arms company made your rifle in 1955 at there New Haven,Conn.plant.
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American maker of repeating firearms, located in New Haven, Connecticut. The Winchester brand is today used under license by two subsidiaries of the Herstal Group, Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Belgium and the Browning Arms Company of Morgan, Utah.
The WRACO stamping indicates that your Winchester firearm was produced by Winchester Repeating Arms Company(WRACO).
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The Winchester trademark is currently owned by Olin Corporation which trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OLN. Other parts of the company are owned by FN Herstal a private company consisting of U.S. Repeating Arms Company (Winchester) and Browning Arms Company.