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alvin · 01-28-2009, 11:06 AM

DWM alphabet is one of my favorites. I love commercial guns. A little bit background from Ezell:

"In his book, John Walter has tried to unravel the production story of DWM/BKIW for the years after the war and before the disposal of the production tooling to Mauser in 1930. By comparing his figure with the level of wartime production, the decline in DWM's production can be fully appreciated. In the decade from 1920 to 1930, this Germany firm build around 35,000 Parabellums, a yearly average of 3,500, but during World War I they turned out 170,000 each year. In other words, DWM could have produced 3,500 pistols in only five days; after the war they had to stretch out one week's work to fill up an entire year."

A painful decade.

01-28-2009, 11:06 AM	#8
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	DWM alphabet is one of my favorites. I love commercial guns. A little bit background from Ezell: "In his book, John Walter has tried to unravel the production story of DWM/BKIW for the years after the war and before the disposal of the production tooling to Mauser in 1930. By comparing his figure with the level of wartime production, the decline in DWM's production can be fully appreciated. In the decade from 1920 to 1930, this Germany firm build around 35,000 Parabellums, a yearly average of 3,500, but during World War I they turned out 170,000 each year. In other words, DWM could have produced 3,500 pistols in only five days; after the war they had to stretch out one week's work to fill up an entire year." A painful decade.