The British emphasis in this history reflects the scale of the surviving development record. Britain supplied unusually consistent naval-gun funding during the period, and several firms competed for the work while developing rival mechanisms. Other countries also experimented, though at a lower industrial volume. British records consequently provide much of the evidence for tracing how quick-firing guns advanced.
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Why British industry led early rate-of-fire experiments
Britain's sustained naval spending and competing gun firms explain why so much early large-caliber rapid-fire work appears in Royal Navy records.