#13 on the Quiz

[Patrick]

The first Haenel-Schmeisser (HS) type magazines still had the old, round mag spring and were chrome plated. They were first introduced some time during the 1930s and were issued to the police and sold commercially but were not issued to the military. HS patented the new, flat, zig-zag spring for his P 08 magazine on the 15th Feb. 1938. This new type HS magazine was first issued to the German Armed Forces in 1939 (22nd Feb. to the Wehrmacht, 15th May to the Luftwaffe & 25th July to the Navy). These magazines were NOT â??extrudedâ?� as Haenal did not have the facilities (this fact has been corroborated by a former employee, Herr Victor Leick). If you take a careful look at the â??122â?� code stamped HS mags, you will notice that the blueing on the rear is discoloured, where the fluid has reacted to the weld.


HS was issued with a new code (fxo) instead of â??122â?� in June 1941. At the same time, magazine production was transferred to two sub-contractors (Reinhold Manteuffel and August Menz). Their magazine are genuinely extruded, do not have a weld line down the back and are stamped â??fxoâ?�.