Who knows all the Luger producers ?

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Just issued, our last Ebook on the Luger pistol.


"The Luger Producers" is closing our series on the subject.


Four Luger Ebooks are now available in our site.


Find them all at the url : http://users.skynet.be/HL-Editions/ebook/liste01.htm


Content of our last Ebook :


Luger pistol producers

- Who produced Luger pistols

- German Map with locations


Erfurt Lugers - Historic details

- The arsenal's origin

- The production strategy

- From Erfurt to ERMA

- Detailed production board


Markings on Erfurt Lugers

- Three types of crowns can be found

- A host of various control stamps

- The Crowned RC, standing for "Revisions Commission"

- A Crowned P marking

- Unit markings are also found


An Erfurt Luger back from East Germany

- An ERFURT Luger that had a very long service life

- The pistol was drafted into service in East Germany

- The pistol was modified during the thirties

- New proof markings were applied

- A unit marking which relates to the D�¼sseldorf Police

- The police administrative district codes


The Royal Spandau Arsenal

- Initially, Spandau was a fortress

- DWM Lugers were checked by Spandau inspectors

- Lugers whose toggle was struck with a Spandau crowned logo

- The so-called "production" is estimated at about 200 pistols

- If all of these pieces are not fakes ...


The Vickers Lugers

- Vickers & Co.which was founded at Sheffield (England) in 1823

- An activity, oriented toward war battleship building

- Vickers was to handle a Dutch contract for Luger pistols

- These Lugers were proofed under English law

- The English firearms regulation


The Simson Lugers

- The firm SIMSON & Co, Waffenfabrik , Suhl, Thuringia

- Simson acquired the ERFURT arsenal machinery

- The rework of the pistols still available in remaining inventories

- Simson Lugers were very similar to ERFURT's

- The Simson markings

- A total Luger production estimated at around 25,000 pistols

- The "Simson & Co" marking replaced by a single "S"

- In 1934, the firm was dismantled by the Nazis


Krieghoff Lugers - Historic details

- In 1886, Ludwig Krieghoff founded a sporting guns factory

- Ludwig had two sons named Ludwig Jr. and Heinrich

- The "HEINRICH KRIEGHOFF WAFFENFABRIK"

- Among its military oriented projects was a semi-automatic rifle

- The H. Krieghoff company commercialized DWM Lugers

- The rear face of the frame struck "KRIEGHOFF SUHL"

- An order of 10,000 Luger pistols for the "Luftwaffe"

- Luger production means were tooled by the firm's engineers

- Only Krieghoff Lugers bear "Luftwaffe" acceptance markings

- A small quantity of Lugers sold on the commercial market

- Today the firm KRIEGHOFF is based at ULM


Krieghoff Lugers - Military production

- It only represents a total of some 13,825 pieces

- The "G" and "S" chamber codes

- Military production figures detailed by serial ranges

- The original contract of 10,000 pieces

- The 1940 production

- The complementary 1940 - 1944 production

- The last delivery of 1944 - 45


Krieghoff Lugers - Commercial production

- A capital "P" prefix letter along with the serial number

- Commercial production figures detailed by serial ranges

- Production figures detailed by serial ranges

- The first group, from P1 to P999

- The second group includes some fifty pistols

- The last group begins with serial number P1060 until P1280

- When the Krieghoff's plant was "liberated" by the US troops

- The Krieghoff made Lugers are easily identified

- A "fzs" code was given to Krieghoff


Krieghoff Military Production Markings

- The inspectors were accredited by the "Luftwaffe"

- The inspection process covered two stages

- The problem of incorrect headspace

- A four or five pointed star rejection mark

- Aside from the "Luftwaffe" acceptance markings

- The still mysterious "K�¼" Lugers

- The LA or ZA or LZA marking


Mauser - Historic details

- The Mauser legacy began in the modest circumstances

- The brothers, Paul and Wilhelm Mauser

- Their rifle officially adopted as the "Infanteriegewehr Modell 1871"

- The Mauser brothers founded their first factory, in 1872

- Around 1875, the Mauser company began to develop a revolver

- The semi-automatic pistol had appeared on the scene

- The pistol was called the "C96"

- The 1907-1914 era : A growing interest for small caliber pistols

- On May 30, 1922, the company's name was changed

- In 1932, a new model, sometimes called the "712", was launched

- In 1937, a new model appeared : The Hsc


Mauser Lugers - Commercial production

- During the years 1930 through 1934

- The serial suffix letters : "s"," t" and "u"

- An order by the firm A. F. Stoeger, of New York

- Stoeger sole agent for DWM's after Hans Tauscher had left

- The Jewish firm "ELECTRIC COMPANY OF ISRAEL"

- The major part of the production delivered to German Police

- Dates codes like "K"(1934), "G" (1935)

- Commercial production figures by serial ranges and customers


Mauser Lugers - Commercial Foreign Contracts

- The Portuguese Lugers

- The Latvian Lugers

- The Dutch Lugers

- The Siamese Lugers

- The Swedish Lugers

- The Turkish Lugers

- The Persian Lugers

- Commercial Lugers 1934/06


Mauser Military Lugers

- Military production figures by serial ranges and markings

- The Lugers S/42 (K)

- The Lugers S/42 (G)

- The Lugers S/42 (1936 - 1939)

- The Lugers 42 (1939-1940)

- The last variations "byf" 41 and 42


The Last Mauser Lugers

- The last -1942- Mauser Luger

- The Luger "byf / 42" serial nummer 3061n

- An entwined "RW" marking

- Recent Mauser production


Current Lugers prices and Bibliography

- B&B Auction - August 1993

- Many specific books


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