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A film I co shot, directed and edited. It was a commission from William Evans, great working with Alistair and the team. Description taken from @thegentlemansjournal William Evans’ business has flourished for 133 years thanks to its policy of combining high quality and craftsmanship with affordability and value for money. We found out more from Alastair Phillips, General Manager of the company’s shop in St. James’s Street, London. Providing clients with exceptional quality and value for money was the cornerstone on which William Evans founded his gun making business in 1883. Initially catering for the professional classes by offering London-quality guns at affordable price, the company subsequently became world-renowned for its hand-built sidelock and boxlock side-by-side shotguns, bolt-action and large-calibre double rifles. Today, still driven by that ethos, William Evans enjoys an enviable reputation amongst those ‘in the know’ as the place to go for everything to do with shooting and the countryside. Still at the cutting-edge of retailing its shops, in St James’s Street, London and at the National Shooting Centre in Surrey, stock an extensive range of new and pre-owned sporting guns to suit every quarry and budget. They also offer everything that the country sportsman or clay target shooting enthusiast could possibly need, including sophisticated country clothing and game shooting/stalking attire from leading manufacturers. As always, discrete, well-informed staff are on-hand to offer advice and help clients make the perfect choice. This personal approach appeals to clients who prefer to deal with a relatively small, bespoke gunmaker which treats them as individuals rather than buying from a large ‘corporate’ gunmaker where they are just one of the crowd. Once a William Evans client they remain very loyal, the descendants of several families who purchased guns in the early 1900s still return them for routine servicing. London’s gun makers thrived during the 1920s and 1930s and at that time William Evans was one of 30 or so in the St. James’s and Mayfair areas, its craftsmen producing around 200 shotguns and rifles each year. The majority were based on boxlock-style actions by Webley & Scott in Birmingham, a company synonymous with high quality, reasonably-priced sporting arms. Today, as one of London’s few-remaining independent English gun makers, William Evans offers a range of models which cater for all requirements and budgets.

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