borchardt

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Originally Posted by wolfganggo

1897 an fixing point with the swiss trials, an arms and explosives article, LÖWE DWM transition, but then i'm lost, loosing resilent datadetails....

The Borchardt C93 was tested in Switzerland in the year 1897, together with the Bergmann 1894 No. 3, the Mannlicher 1994 and the Mauser C96. Extensive tests took place on the 22. and 23. June 1897 in the city Thun (30km away from Bern). Two experts (Colonel von Mechel and Professor Amlser-Laffon) carried out further tests with these four pistol types in autumn 1897.

The next important tests took place in November 1898 and from these four pistol types only the C96 was still involved. The C93 was already replaced by DWM by two very early Luger prototypes (Borchardt-Luger SN 4 and 5).


For the tests of 1897 three C93 were available. One of them had the SN 1. From the other two pistols no SN are recorded in the files of the Swiss Federal Archives (or elsewhere, at least to my knowledge). In the collection of the former Waffenfabrik Bern is a C93 with the SN 95 (Loewe). I assume that this is a pistol from the tests of 1897, but there is no proof for it.

Alexander