Enfield, a village of Middlesex, 12 miles by rail N. of London, with a population (1881) of 19,104, is the seat of a government small-arms factory, which is capable of turning out 5000 rifles a week; the ordinary weekly output is, however, about 1800. See RIFLES.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 343
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