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- Geoffrey_Boothroyd abstract "Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) was a British firearms expert and author of several works on the subject, who is best known for giving weapons advice to James Bond author Ian Fleming. He was born in Blackpool.Beginning with A Guide to Gun Collecting and Guns Through the Ages (both 1961) to The British Over and Under Shotgun co-authored with Susan Boothroyd (2004), Boothroyd was a prolific author on the subject of firearms.Whilst employed with the Imperial Chemical Industries, an ammunition manufacturer, Boothroyd wrote a letter to Fleming professing admiration for the character of James Bond, but not his choice of weapons, particularly the .25 calibre Beretta 418. Fleming responded to Boothroyd, and their correspondence about weaponry has been reprinted in various places.As a result of the correspondence Fleming gave Bond a Walther PPK pistol in Dr. No and created a character named \"Major Boothroyd\" in the novel. (The real Boothroyd held no such rank.) Prior to the correspondence Fleming is reported to have thought guns to be dull. Boothroyd advised Fleming on the use of silencers and suggested various firearms for use by Bond and other characters.Boothroyd provided illustrator Richard Chopping with his own .38 Smith & Wesson snubnosed revolver, modified with one third of the trigger guard removed, to meet Fleming's wish for a design incorporating a pistol and a rose for the first edition cover of From Russia, with Love. Boothroyd had to assist the police with their enquiries when a similar weapon was used in a triple murder in Glasgow explaining that his weapon had been posted to Ian Fleming for a book cover. Peter Manuel was later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder.In the first Bond film, Dr. No, Major Boothroyd, portrayed by Peter Burton, recreates the scene from the novel. Starting with From Russia with Love, Desmond Llewelyn played the armourer, later christened Q, in all but one of the subsequent films until his death.Geoffrey Boothroyd appeared as himself in a short film The Guns of James Bond available on the Dr. No Ultimate Edition DVD.".
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