What Year Did DWM Produce The Largest Number
 

Of Lugers? Obviously How could either D.W.M. or Erfurt physically produce so many and retain such quality. What was the first model to display a chamber date and why begin the practice?

1916 and 1917 DWM are quoted at 173000 pieces each year.
If they worked 300 days a year and put in 12 hours daily that gives:
576 2/3 Parabellums a day and 48 an hour.
Given that it took @12 hours to make one then they had at least 576 men +-? making Parabellums alone.


On a totally unrelated note the Daewoo shipyard in South Korea employs @50000 workers and they slaughter @200 cattle daily to feed them. Not that they just eat bovine meat but that is a lot of cattle daily.