The New York Times on the Borchardt Pistol
 

October 14, 1894: A CURIOUS AUTOMATIC PISTOL.; A German Invention That Is the Wonder of Military Men.

October 21, 1894: THE BORCHARDT AUTOMATIC PISTOL.; Mechanism Explained of the Remarkable Product of Gunmaker Loewe.

September 12, 1897: SHOOTING AT CREEDMOOR; Barely 200 Men Attended the Ranges for Marksmen's and Experts' Practice. EXCELLENT SCORES MADE A New Automatic Repeating Pistol Tested at Several Ranges with Satisfactory Results -- Twelfth Regiment Carried Off the Honors.

November 21, 1897: SMOKELESS POWDER PISTOL.; Some Features of the Borchardt Automatic Repeating Weapon.

Thanks a lot! It's amazing that English language 115 years ago is exactly same as today.

Not quite.

It's a great site. Found Paul Mauser's death

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...639C946596D6CF

He's dead? Just kidding.

I used the NY Times archives as a reference many times. They are quite a handy tool for the casual researcher. Other fun names to search for:

Georg Luger
Hiram Stevens Maxim
Hudson Maxim
Paul von Gontard

This article of January 22, 1947 "French Zone Demilitarizing Lags; Dynamite, Pistol Plants Still Intact;...."

So by 1947, was the Mauser pistol plants still there?

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstra...8AD85F438485F9

Yes, they were producing for France :)

The complex was dismantled in 1948 and some buildings (not all) were dynamited.
Production material, spare parts and several engineers and designers were trafficked to France.