Dual Named Colts?

[Bisley]

Hello, everyone. Just had a thought..What other firearm manufacturer has had two entirely differen't arms with the same name?
The Colt Lightning revolver and the Lightning rifle were both being sold in the same time period!

[dandak]

Stevens had a few 22 rifles like that, cant remember the actual names right now but I remember having to look up the model numbers to differentiate the 2.

[cda926]

Colt actually had two completely different revolvers named the "New Police" model.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_New_Police_Revolver

and

http://www.coltparts.com/pt_newpolicesa.html

[Kid Sopris]

The Colt Rifle was marketed as the "Slide Action", and it came in three different frame sizes, Small, Medium and Large. I don't know who named it Lightening, but I don't think it was Colt.

PS Let me add, that in my Letters from Colt, Kathy Hoyt never referred to it as a Lightening, despite what the Blue Book refers to them as.

[WIL TERRY]

LIGHTNING and THUNDERER were never COLT names for their DA pistols of that era. Those names were advertising hooeey from Kittredge If memory serves. It must have been effective advertizing as thoser are what we remember them by; AMAZING !!

[Oyeboten]

LIGHTNING and THUNDERER were never COLT names for their DA pistols of that era. Those names were advertising hooeey from Kittredge If memory serves. It must have been effective advertizing as thoser are what we remember them by; AMAZING !!

What did Colt call them?

[WIL TERRY]

What did Colt call them?

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