1942 Banner police

[gunbugs]

Originally Posted by Lyn Islaub

gunbugs,
All 1941 and most 1942 Banner Police lugers have numbered Type 3 magazines with the pinned base. Late production run 1942 Banners had Type 4 plastic base magazines like their BYF 42 Army counterparts. Most, if not all, 1942 Banners were Eagle L proofed and many of the later production run 1942s were drilled for a sear safety, but it was not installed. Yours in that regard is unusual, as it is a fairly late 1942 and has an intact sear safety.
All 1942 Police Banners were of the y suffix and there were about 5,500 made that year.
Lyn

So, from what I gather here, this particular pistol would have been issued with a plastic bottom magazine, same as a BYF Army issue of the same era.

[MAUSER88]

Originally Posted by gunbugs

So, from what I gather here, this particular pistol would have been issued with a plastic bottom magazine, same as a BYF Army issue of the same era.

Yes, correct.

[guns3545]

Originally Posted by gunbugs

So, from what I gather here, this particular pistol would have been issued with a plastic bottom magazine, same as a BYF Army issue of the same era.

Doug,

I would not be so sure.

If one looks at the distribution of recorded examples, one could deduce that 1942, y-suffix Banner Police guns were principally delivered with 4-mm-pol and 5-mm-pol magazines, the main difference being the occurrence of fxo and Herreswaffenamt markings on the 5. But both had aluminum bases. Sprinkled in were a few 2-cgh-pol magazines. And a few other types just to make it interesting to draw firm conclusions.

One should also remember that the Haenel factory never produced the type 6, plastic base version of the Haenel Patent design. These were produced by sub-contractors, notably two in the Suhl area, who produced the type 6 black plastic base magazines used by the military.

And, finally at this time Mauser was exiting the P.08 manufacturing business and frantically trying to produce the P.38 which had become the standard issue sidearm. Thus excess parts and inventory were flying all over the place.

John