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To cover all the other illegal manufacturers, the government gave official letter codes to the legal companies, like "S" to Simsons (guns), "P" to Polte (ammunition), and so on.
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Are you referring to the S toggles? If so, then that is a wrong assumption.
This theory of the S meaning Simson for the S/42 is in the new Mauser book. I am still not convinced, as it seems every time an 'S' is used it is attributed to Simson, so I need a lot more convincing.
The Allied commission was gone in 1927, so why would they feel the need to use the Simson 'S'?
You see the S as a date code also, Kreighoff S dates and then you see the skryptic S on the k dates, and then later the S/42 on mauser.
The germans did hide their companies under codes to confuse the enemy; but the 's', being for Simson, well, I need more documentation.
Ed