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Photographs of Luger and Spare Parts Being Manufacturied??
Does anyone have any photos of Lugers being manufactured at any of the production plants? DWM, Mauser, Spandau, Krieghoff, Bern, Vickers, etc. I am talking about photos of different stages of manufacture of the various parts...
It just occured to me that I don't remember EVER seeing any, even in reference books...(which I no longer have). Were these things all destroyed during or after the war? And how about AIMCO and Krauswerk? Photo's in articles or advertising literature? Patrick and Frank Rial, anything like that in the documents you two have collected? I think it would be neat to see the machinery and jigs used to produce them... and it would be a great addition to the history pages here on the forum as well... -please pardon the ramblings of a bored and aging Parabellum enthusiast and engineer... -John |
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I would have loved to been a fly on the wall at DWM during all the production. But the chemical fumes would have probably done me in. Thor
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It seems to me that there is some footage of Mike Krause's shop and a row of partially completed, unfinished Luger .45s in the History Channel's Story of the Gun-Luger video.
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There is and shows him working on them! Very Cool
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<div>John, this is a VERY rare photo I found in a Berlin archive. The quality is too poor for it to be included in any of the German literature. But it does show the typical Berlin factory environment in which the DWM `88 rifle and the Luger were manufactured. It would be difficult to find later materialbecause of war time secrecy. Patrick<br />
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<div>John, One photo that you may find of interest is published on page 134 of John Walther)
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John,
In Gortz's book, "Die P.08", there are three photos of persond doing inspection procedures on Lugers, just not of any machinery. In Law's book, "The Backbone of the Wehrmact" there are a number of photos of the Mauser manufacturing facility. This book deals with the K98k only, but it does show the machinery layout and I feel that the pistol production area would be similar. Marvin |
Thanks Guys!
What a wealth of research knowledge this forum provides! It is like having direct access to an historical brain trust!
-John |
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