Wood Grips vs. Plastic Grips - When

That is quite a story. Mauser must have been using a real extreme example of the "just in time" supply principle. It seems that it would have been faster to have fixed the flat tire than to coordinate an airlift from one of Germany's test pilots. I would have loved to have seen the bicycle shuffle of trans-shipped Luger grips going down thru the Black Forest. It is also interesting to learn that the SS-Gestapo controlled all black raw material. At any rate it looks as though this question is cleared up one and for all.